Therefore, he decided to offer it at home to retain its status as voluntary night worship, which we can do at any time.
In fact it continued to be offered in congregation, but without regular arrangements. What Umar did was to organize it in a proper way. One night in Ramadan he came into the mosque and found several groups of worshippers offering the Taraweeh prayer in several congregations. He disliked this, because it suggested division within the Muslim community. Therefore, he told them to form one congregation and appointed Ubayy ibn Kaab to lead the congregation.
Umar did not join because, as caliph, he led the obligatory prayers. Again he was keen not to give this prayer any impression of being obligatory. He was not referring to the Taraweeh prayer itself, because the prayer was known to all and practiced by many.
Perform your prayers at your homes, for the best prayer of a person is what is performed at his home except the compulsory congregational prayer. Sayyidna Umar May Allah be pleased with him noticed this and decided that it would be better to perform the prayer as one larger congregation, the unified congregation being more in the spirit of Islam.
This was the beginning of the congregational Tarawih as we know it now. Some men were praying by themselves, whilst others were praying in small groups. It would be better in my opinion if these people gathered behind one reciter. On that night, some people prayed with him. During the second night, word spread and more people joined in taraweeh.
Even more people attended on the third night. The Prophet, however, prayed at home by himself. Later, Caliph Omar gathered everyone behind one imam and they prayed 8 rakats.
Eventually, it was increased to 20 rakats to make it easy for people. According to a Hadith from Sahih Al Bukhari, taraweeh prayer is eight rakats. Taraweeh is prayed in sets of two rakats each, in the same way as you would pray your normal salah. The shortest is two rakats and the longest is 20 rakats. However, during the time of Caliph Omar bin Abdulaziz to AD , the people of Medina observed the taraweeh prayer for 36 rakats. There are many rewards for praying the taraweeh. Additionally, as the rewards for good deeds are multiplied during the month of Ramadan, the rewards for Taraweeh are even greater.
While praying taraweeh in congregation at mosques has more rewards than performing it at home, that does not mean it cannot be carried out at home, especially when there is a lockdown. He started reciting Al-Baqarah and he did not come to any verse that spoke of mercy but he paused and asked for mercy, and he did not come to any verse that spoke of punishment but he paused and sought refuge with Allah from that.
I stood on his left side. He took hold of my hand and made me stand on his right side, and whenever I dozed off he took hold of my earlobe and made me alert. He then sat with his legs drawn and wrapped in his garment and slept so that I could hear his breathing while asleep.
One of the biggest differences between Tahajjud and Tarawih is the fact that the established Sunnah of our Rasool saw was to offer 8 Rakah during Tahajjud whereas Umar Ibn Khattab initiated Tarawih, with a 20 Rakah Salah. This also proves that when Umar Ibn Khattab started Tarawih, he had no intention of reviving the Sunnah of Rasool saw who offered Tahajjud for 3 nights in a mosque congregation.
Then next time, we gathered in the mosque and waited that Prophet saws would come out until it was morning. So when Prophet saws came to us, we said to him: O Messenger of Allah saws , we expected that you would come and lead us in prayer. He said: I feared that Witr prayer might be made obligatory upon you. Prophet saws did this, but he left it due to a reason. However, it is not true that Umar ra initiated Taraweeh prayer with 20 Rakah.
And we would not leave until the approach of dawn. Taraweeh and Tahajjud being one is supported from the action of Umar ra , because he used to offer Taraweeh at his home in the last part of the night, while he ordered people to pray in congregation in the Mosque, even then he would not join them.
The reason behind it is that, he knew that Prophet saws used to pray this prayer in the last part of the night. He even remarked on those people stating: the prayer which you people perform in the initial part of the night is lesser in reward in comparison to praying it in the last part of the night.
Thus, here Umar ra considered Taraweeh and Tahajjud as the same. Offering Twenty Rakah in night prayer is also allowed:. As for those who pray twenty Rakat in Taraweeh, then there is no problem in it. From authentic ahadeeth it is deduced that, there is no specified number of rakaat in Qiyaam al-Layl and one can pray as many Rakat as he likes, even though the practise of the Prophet SAWS was to pray 11 Rakat. You should perform salat prayer as much as you can in optional forms during the nights and days.
O abu Muhammad, you should perform more salat prayer during the month of Ramadan. Hence we find a lot of Authentic evidences of variant number of Rakaats in taraweeh. The correct view in regards to Sufyan Thawri is that, apart from being an Imam and Ameer al-Momineen in Hadeeth, he was also a Mudallis. And he used to do Tadlees from Weak and other unreliable narrators. So consider it abrogated and nullified. And sometimes he would commit Tadlees from weak narrators.
Siyar alam al-Nubala, vol 7, page Hafidh al-Alai wrote: For example those narrators who commit Tadlees from Majhool anonymous people who are unknown, like Sufyan al-Thawri. Jami al-Tahseel fi Ahkam al-Maraseel, page Note: This report from Ibn Umar ra is weak and unreliable, however some Muhaqqiqs those who graded the reports based on the categorization Tabaqat of Mudalliseen by Ibn Hajar, graded it as Isnad Sahih chain is authentic , but this grading is based on the erroneous inclusion of Sufyan Thawri in Second category of Mudalliseen by Ibn Hajar, hence their grading is rejected.
So they should worry about the insult of early Shia of Ali ra from their own book. Narrated Zurarah that Imam Baqir as stated: One day Messenger of Allah saws told Ammar ra during a journey that, I have been informed that you became ritually impure, so what did you do?
Ammar replied: O Messenger of Allah, I rolled in dust. He saws said: The donkeys roll like this. Sunnan Abu Daud, Volume 1 page There is disconnection in the chain.
Imam Nawawi weakened the chains of this report. The maximum, one could use this weak report is to argue that, In Ramadan praying nafil voluntary prayers alone at home is more virtuous than praying them in congregation in the Mosque, nothing more.
To understand this issue let us give an example from Shia report. And Imam AS said: Seperating them is better! From this Shia report we can see that, praying Maghrib and Isha prayers seperately is better than combining them, but no Shia would argue that just because seperating Maghrib and Isha is better than combining them , so combining prayers is non-meritious or prohibited. The same goes for praying Taraweeh. And there are many other examples such as, Praying certain prayers in its initial time is better than praying them in the ending time, Or Praying obligatory prayer in congregation being better than praying alone ; but none of these imply that the lesser meritious deed is prohibited.
These are the facts which no unbiased and intelligent person could deny. Even Sunni scholar Shokani accepted this that Imams of Ahlulbayt as deemed Tarawih to be misguided innovation. Nayl al-Awtar, volume 3, page He should take a break yaraawah after four units so one could relieve oneself and repeat the ritual ablution.
He should pray the odd prayer witr at the last part of the night while leaving. Tarawih in the nights and they i. Sahabah prayed with him , then he abstained [from it] and prayed it at his home.
In this report there is proof for the legality of the witr prayer in congregation. May Allah shine his grave with Nour light. Abu Muslim al-Jazmi says that Yazeed bin Abu Sufiyan participated in a battle with people, and when they got the battle booty, a person received a precious slave girl as his share.
Yazeed bin Abu Sufiyan took that slave girl in his possession, so that man came to Abu Dhar, to help him in this matter. Abu Dhar asked him Yazeed bin Abu Sufiyan to return the girl, but he refused thrice.
Am I that person? He replied: No. Then He Yazeed bin Abu Sufiyan returned the slave girl to that person. It was narrated that Abd Khair said: I heard Ali RA say: Allah took His Prophet saws in the best way any Prophet was ever taken, then Abu Bakr ra was appointed as his successor and he did what the Messenger of Allah saws had done and followed the Sunnah of his Prophet; and Umar was appointed and he did likewise.
He departed from this world with untarnished clothes and little shortcomings. By Allah, she never said it knowing it but she was taught it. Ali ibn Abi Talib RA said: May Allah reward such and such man, he straightened the curve, cured the disease, abandoned mischief, and established the Sunnah. He achieved the goodness of this world and remained safe from its evils. He went away and left the people in dividing ways wherein the misled cannot obtain guidance and the guided cannot attain certainty.
On the other hand we find in an authentic report that afflictions will not start till death of Umar ra. Then turmoil fitnah struck us, and that is what Allah willed. Shia scholar Allamah Ali bin Moosa al-Tabreezi acknowledged this fact stating:.
The Imami explanation for this is that , it was to win the hearts of his followers. Therefore, Sunnis are following the Fatwa of Imams from Ahl al-bayt. The Defenders of Tarawih often use this excuse to prove its legitimacy, namely that Khalifa Ali bin Abi Talib never stopped his subjects from offering Tarawih prayers.
This is a blatant lie. Sunnah of first two Caliphs, that it was impossible to show them the right path. They broke the promises which they made with Rasool and changed the Sunnah of Rasool Allah saww.
If today I ask people to leave all these things innovations and restore things back to the way they were at the time of Rasulullah s , my army shall rebel and abandon me, and I shall be left alone.
And if I return the properties, which were given by Rasool s to their original owners, and deny the decisions which were based on injustice and tyranny , and snatch the women who were illegally taken by some people and return them to their husbands, and if I deny the unjust distribution of Fadak, and start giving the shares to every one equally as were originally given by Rasool s , but earlier caliphs started giving according to status , ….
I ordered people that they should only gather for Fardh obligatory prayers during Ramadhan, and told them that congregation Jamah in Nafal i.
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