al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 360
✧ The times when prayer is forbidden
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وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حُجَيْرٍ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ:
أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ، فَنَهَاهُ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ، ؓ. فَقَالَ طَاوُسٌ: إِنَّمَا نُهِيَ عَنْهَا أَنْ يَتَّخِذَهَا سُلَّمًا. قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ: وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمُ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ الْآيَةَ، وَمَا أَدْرِي أَتُعَذَّبُ عَلَيْهَا أَمْ تُؤْجَرُ
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Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū ʿUmar
- Sufyān
- Hishām b. Ḥujayr
- Ṭāwus
✧ He used to pray after 'Asr, and Ibn 'Abbas ؓ forbade him. Tawus said: "It was only forbidden lest it be taken as a ladder." Ibn 'Abbas ؓ said: "It is not for any believing man or believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, to have any choice in their affair"—the verse—"and I do not know whether you will be punished for it or rewarded."
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