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WorldOfIslam.info - Malik's Muwatta Hadith
Malik's Muwatta
Book 06 - Prayer in Ramadan
Section: Stimulation of the Desire for Prayer
in Ramadan
Book 6, Number
6.1.1:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn
Shihab from Urwa ibn az-Zubayr from A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, prayed in the mosque one night and people prayed
behind him. Then he prayed the next night and there were more people. Then
they gathered on the third or fourth night and the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, did not come out to them. In the morning,
he said, "I saw what you were doing and the only thing that prevented me from
coming out to you was that I feared that it would become obligatory (fard) for
you." This happened in Ramadan.
Book 6, Number
6.1.2:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn
Shihab from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf from Abu Hurayra that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to exhort
people to watch the night in prayer in Ramadan but never ordered it
definitely. He used to say, "Whoever watches the night in prayer in Ramadan
with trust and expectancy, will be forgiven all his previous wrong actions."
Ibn Shihab said, "The Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, died while that wasstill the custom, and
it continued to be the custom in the khalifate of Abu Bakr and at the
beginning of the khalifate of Umar ibn al-Khattab."
Section: Watching the Night in Prayer
Book 6, Number
6.2.3:
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Urwa
ibn az-Zubayr that Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qari said, "I went out with Umar
ibn alKhattab in Ramadan to the mosque and the people there were spread out in
groups. Some men were praying by themselves, whilst others were praying in
small groups. Umar said, 'By Allah! It would be better in my opinion if these
people gathered behind one reciter.' So he gathered them behind Ubayy ibn Kab.
Then I went out with him another night and the people were praying behind
their Qur'an reciter. Umar said, 'How excellent this new way is, but what you
miss while you are asleep is better than what you watch in prayer.' He meant
the end of the night, and people used to watch the beginning of the night in
prayer."
Book 6, Number
6.2.4:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad
ibn Yusuf that as-Sa'ib ibn Yazid said, "Umar ibn al-Khattab ordered Ubayy ibn
Kab and Tamim ad-Dari to watch the night in prayer with the people for eleven
rakas.The reciterof the Qur'an would recite the Mi'in (a group of medium-sized
suras) until we would be leaning on our staffs from having stood so long in
prayer. And we would not leave until the approach of dawn."
Book 6, Number
6.2.5:
Yahya related to me from Malik that Yazid ibn
Ruman said, "The people used to watch the night in prayer during Ramadan for
twenty-three rakas in the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab."
Book 6, Number
6.2.6:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Da'ud ibn
al-Husayn that he heard al-Araj say, "I never saw the people in Ramadan, but
that they were cursing the disbelievers." He added, "The reciter of Qur'an
used to recite surat al-Baqara in eight rakas and if he did it in twelve rakas
the people would think that he had made it easy."
Book 6, Number
6.2.7:
Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah
ibn Abi Bakr said, "I heard my father say, 'We finished praying in Ramadan and
the servants hurried with the food, fearing the approach of dawn.' "
Book 6, Number
6.2.8:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham
ibn Urwa from his father that Dhakwan Abu Amr (a slave belonging to A'isha,
the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who was
freed by her after her death) used tostand in prayer and recite for her in
Ramadan.
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The
Holy Quran Quotes
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"… when it is said to them; 'Make not mischief on the Earth', they say; 'We are only peace makers'. Indeed they are the ones who make mischief, but they perceive it not"
(Al-Baqarah 2:11-12)
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