Author: Salafi Dawah Manchester

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy.

Question: Is the Sujood As-Sahw [Pperformed] Before The Tasleem [i.e. after saying Assalaamu Alaykum Warahmatullaah] or After It; Or Are There [Different] Situations In Which It Should Be [Performed] Before the Tasleem or After It?

Shaikh Saaleh Al-Fawzaan [hafidhahullaah] Answers The Question: It is permissible [to perform] the Sujood As-Sahw before the Tasleem and after it; but what is better is to perform it before the Tasleem if one is performing it due to omitting [something] from the prayer, such as when one omits the first Tashahhud [i.e. unintentionally]; or omits an obligatory act of the prayer, such as the statement ‘Subhaanah Rabbiyal Adheem’ in the Rukoo or ‘Subhaanah Rabbiyal A’laa’ in the Sujood.

As for if it [i.e. the Sujood As-Sahw is performed] due to adding something extra [in the prayer], such as performing the Tasleem before completing [the prayer], or rising up for the fifth [Rak’ah] in a prayer that should be four [Rak’aat], or [rising for the] third [Rak’ah] in a prayer that should be two [Rak’ah], or [rising for the] fourth [Rak’ah] in the Maghrib prayer, but one remembered and sits down [i.e. straight away], then indeed the best thing is that it [i.e. the Sujood As-Sahw] is performed after the Tasleem. So, whatever is added [in the prayer] out of forgetfulness, then what is better is that [the Sujood As-Sahw] is performed after the Tasleem; but if one were to perform it constantly before the Tasleem or after the Tasleem, then there is no harm in that Inshaa-Allaah, and it has been reported that the Messenger [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] did this and that. [Bukhaari (2/65) based on the hadeeth reported by Abdullaah Ibn Buhaynah (radiyallaahu-anhu)]. [Ref 1]

Question: What should one say in the Sujood As-Sahw?

Answer to The Question: What is said in the Sujoodus Salaah [i.e. the statement Subhaanah Rabbiyal A’laa in the Sujood of the prayer] is what is to be said in the Sujood As-Sahw- either once or more; and one can supplicate whilst performing the Sujood As-Sahw just as he does in the Sujoodus Salaah [i.e. the Sujood of the prayer]. There is no difference between the two affairs [i.e. what is done in the Sujood of the prayer is what is to be done in the Sujood As-Sahw] due to the general evidences, and there is nothing reported that is specified to the Sujood As Sahw [i.e. no specific text to show that what is to be said in the Sujood As-Sahw should be different to what is said in the Sujood of the prayer] [Ref 2]

Ref 1: Al-Muntaqaa Min Fataawaa. Question 195. Vol 2. Publisher Dar Al-Imaan Ahmad. 1^st edition 1434AH [2013]; Ref 2: Al-Muntaqaa Min Fataawaa. Question 196. Vol 2. Publisher Dar Al-Imaan Ahmad. 1^st edition 1434AH [2013]

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy.

Question: Is it obligated on a woman to keep the ties of kinship? Can you clarify this for us and may Allaah reward you.

Answer: keeping the ties of kinship is obligated on every person-both men and women. Allaah [The Most High] said:

فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَن تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فَأَصَمَّهُمْ وَأَعْمَىٰ أَبْصَارَهُمْ

Would you then, if you were given the authority, do mischief in the land, and sever your ties of kinship? Such are they whom Allah has cursed, so that He has made them deaf and blinded their sight. [47:22-23]

Allaah (Glorified be He and free is He from all imperfections) said: [  وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامَ – And fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship)]. [4:1]

Your kinship ties include everyone related to you, regardless whether they are close or distant relatives. Your mother is the closest relative to you and the one more deserving of your kind treatment, and then your father.  Abu Hurairah (radiyallaahu-anhu) reported that a man said: O Messenger of Allaah! Who among the people is the most worthy of my good companionship? The Prophet (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) said: Your mother. The man said, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man further asked, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man asked again, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your father. [Hadeeth reported by Muslim]

After your mother and father, those who are closest to you are your children, blood brothers and sisters, uncles (or aunts) and cousins. And whenever a person is closer to you as a relative, he (or she) is entitled to more rights from you. Keeping the ties of kinship should be established in accordance with one’s ability, so if your relatives live with you in the same country or close by, it is obligatory to visit them, honour them, show them kindness and assist them if they are in need.

Written correspondence and other means of communication, such as telephones and other modern means of communication are all good means through which close contact can established between many people living far away from each other. Therefore, it is obligated on a person to use them for what will make a person get close to Allaah by keeping the ties of kinship.

However, this (keeping contact through the modern means of communication) is not enough, rather it is obligated on a Muslim to visit his (or her) relatives in person, especially if they are in the same country or close by. But if they live far away, then one should strive to the best of his ability to keep in touch with them and utilise every means that is available to keep in touch. A person should be committed to that in order to receive the reward for keeping the ties of kinship.  He (she) should not be among those who cut the ties of kinship because cutting the ties of kinship is a dangerous affair.  Allah (Glorified be He and free is He from all imperfections) said:

 فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَن تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فَأَصَمَّهُمْ وَأَعْمَىٰ أَبْصَارَهُمْ

Would you then, if you were given the authority, do mischief in the land, and sever your ties of kinship? Such are they whom Allah has cursed, so that He has made them deaf and blinded their sight. [47:22-23]

And Allah knows best.

[Source: Fadaa’il Al-A’maal Pages 22-22’ by Shaikh Muhammad Bin Abdillaah As-Subayyil (rahimahullaah). Slightly paraphrased]

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy.

Question: The questioner asks: if a woman makes an intention to fast the ninth and tenth of Muharram, but then her monthly menstrual circle prevents her from that, will she be rewarded for her intention?

Answer: If a person is determined to perform an act of worship but then he (or she) is (genuinely) prevented from doing so by something that prevents him (or her) from performing the act, the reward for that deed is written for him (or her) even if the act was not performed. That is because Abu Moosaa Al-Ash’ari (radiyallaahu-anhu) said that the Messenger of Allaah (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) said: If a slave of (Allah) becomes sick or travels, he (or she) is rewarded for the good deeds he (or she) used to perform when he (or she) was healthy or at home. [Reported by Bukharin and Muslim]

The Prophet (sallal-laahu-alaayhi-waallam) said: Whoever desires to do a good deed then does not do it [i.e. he (or she) is genuinely prevented from doing so], Allah will write it down as one complete good deed. [Reported by Bukhari]

[source: Fadaa’il Al-A’maal’ pages 21-22’ by Shaikh Muhammad Bin Abdillaah As-Subayyil (rahimahullaah)]