Anas said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and his Companions used to pray in the direction of Jerusalem. When the following verse was revealed: “ So turn thy face towards the inviolable mosque”; and Ye (O Muslims), wheresoever ye may be, turn your face towards it” (ii. 144), a man passed by the people of Banu Salamah. He called them while they were bowing in the morning prayer facing Jerusalem: Lo, the qiblah (direction of prayer) has been changed towards the Kaabah. He called them twice. So they turned their faces towards the Kaabah while they were bowing.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday; on it Adam was created, on it he was expelled (from Paradise), on it his contrition was accepted, on it he died, and on it the Last Hour will take place. On Friday every beast is on the lookout from dawn to sunrise in fear of the Last Hour, but not jinn and men, and it contains a time at which no Muslim prays and asks anything from Allah but He will give it to him. Kab said: That is one day every year. So I said: It is on every Friday. Kab read the Torah and said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم has spoken the truth. Abu Hurairah said: I met Abdullah ibn Salam and told him of my meeting with Kab. Abdullah ibn Salam said: I know what time it is. Abu Hurairah said: I asked him to tell me about it. Abdullah ibn Salam said: It is at the very end of Friday. I asked: How can it be when the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم has said: No Muslim finds it while he is praying. . . . and this is the moment when no prayer is offered. Abdullah ibn Salam said: Has the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم not said: If anyone is seated waiting for the prayer, he is engaged in the prayer until he observes it. I said: Yes, it is so.
Read More..Narrated Aws ibn Aws: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Among the most excellent of your days is Friday; on it Adam was created, on it he died, on it the last trumpet will be blown, and on it the shout will be made, so invoke more blessings on me that day, for your blessings will be submitted to me. The people asked: Messenger of Allah, how can it be that our blessings will be submitted to you while your body is decayed? He replied: Allah, the Exalted, has prohibited the earth from consuming the bodies of Prophets.
Read More..Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Friday is divided into twelve hours. Amongst them there is an hour in which a Muslim does not ask Allah for anything but He gives it to him. So seek it in the last hour after the afternoon prayer.
Read More..Abu Burdah bin Abl Musa al-Asha’ri said: Abdullah bin Umar said to me: Did you hear your father narrating a tradition from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about an hour on Friday (when supplication is accepted by Allah)? I said: Yes, I heard it. I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: This hour is found during the period when the imam is seated (for giving Friday sermon) until the prayer is finished. Abu Dawud said: By sitting is meant sitting on the pulpit
Read More..If anyone performs ablution, doing it well, then come to the Friday prayer, listens and keeps silence, his sins between that time and the next Friday will be forgiven, with three days extra; but he who touches pebbles has caused an interruption.
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