My question is that on Juma, when a person reaches a masjid and the khutba has already started can a person pray two nafil rakahs of tahiyatul masjid and two rakahs of tahiyatul wudu while the khutba is going on.
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question is that on Juma, when a person reaches a masjid and the khutba has
already started can a person pray two nafil rakahs of tahiyatul masjid and two
rakahs of tahiyatul wudu while the khutba is going on. Please provide me the
answer it authentic hadith and quranic verses.
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Answer:
Tahiyatul masjid friday
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 62 Surah
Jumuah verse 9:
9 O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday
(the Day of Assembly) hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah and leave
off business (and traffic): that is best for you if ye but knew!
Abu Hurairah
reports that the Prophet (saws) said: "Whoever makes ghusl on the day of
Jumu'ah and then goes to the mosque and prays what has been prescribed for him,
and remains quiet while the imam delivers the khutbah, and then prays with the
imam (in congregation), he will be forgiven for what is between that Jumu'ah
and the next, and an additional three days."
Related by Muslim.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 2.51 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Prophet (saws) said, "When it is a
Friday, the Angels stand at the gate of the mosque and keep on writing the
names of the persons coming to the mosque in succession according to their
arrivals. The example of the one who enters the mosque in the earliest hour is
that of one offering a camel (in sacrifice). The one coming next is like one
offering a cow, and then a ram, and then a chicken, and then an egg
respectively. When the Imam comes out (for the Jumua sermon) they (i.e. Angels)
fold their scrolls and listen to the Khutba."
The Messenger of Allah (saws) time and time again stressed
the merits and rewards for arriving early to the mosques during all
congregational prayers, especially the Jumua Friday mid-day sermon and
prayer. If for some genuine reason one
is late to the Friday mid-day prayer, and only reaches the mosque to find that
the imam has already started the sermon, one should not sit down until one
has recited the two-rakah tahiyat-ul-masjid prayer.
Al-Muwatta Hadith 9.60
Yahya related from Malik, from Amir ibn Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr, from Amr ibn Sulaymaz-Zuraqi, from Abu Qatadaal-Ansari that the Messenger
of Allah (saws) said, "Whenever you enter the mosque, you should pray two rakas (tahiyat-ul-masjid)
before you sit down."
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 2.52 Narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah
A person entered the mosque while the Prophet
(saws) was delivering the Khutba (sermon) on a Friday. The Prophet (saws) said to him, "Have
you prayed (the tahiyat-ul-masjid)?"
The man replied in the negative. The Prophet (saws) said, "Get up
and pray two Rakah."
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "If
one of you comes to the mosque on the day of Jumu'ah and the imam is delivering
the khutbah, he should pray two rak'at and make them quick."
Related by Ahmad, Muslim, and Abu Dawud.
As meritorious as the two-rakahs of tahiyat-ul-wudu
prayer are, there is no evidence in the authentic and established Sunnah that
the Messenger of Allah (saws) commanded any of his companions to offer them if
they entered the Mosque on Friday after the imam had started his sermon; but
there is enough evidence that the Messenger of Allah (saws) commanded the
believers to offer the two-rakah tahiyat-ul-masjid even if the imam had started
the sermon on Friday.
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Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister