The Most Important Salaah of the day
Pillars of Islam
Asked on 17th February 2020
Question
Salaams. Sheikh which is the most important prayer in the day , which has more rewards. Secondly is it always mandatory to pray sunnah prayers.
Answer
Wa'alaykumsalaam Wa Rahmatullah.
All prayers are important and compulsory to be prayed on time. I know you may be referring to the middle prayer which Allah stated in the Qur'an.
Allah says “Guard strictly (five obligatory) As‑Salawaat (the prayers) especially the middle Salaah (i.e. the best prayer). And stand before Allaah with obedience [and do not speak to others during the Salaah (prayers)]” [al-Baqarah 2:238]
Here the middle prayer is Salaah Al 'Asr.
This is the view of most of the scholars, and it is the correct and reliable view, because of the evidence to that effect in the Qur’aan and the Sunnah.
Al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasaa’i narrated that Zurr ibn Hubaysh said: We said to ‘Ubaydah: Ask ‘Ali about the middle prayer. He asked him and he said: We used to think that that was Fajr, until I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say on the day of al-Ahzaab: “They distracted us from the middle prayer, ‘Asr prayer.” This report states that it is ‘Asr in the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). The argument for it being Fajr is strong, but the correct view is that it is ‘Asr.
It shows that 'Asr is a prayer that needs to be prayed without delayed. The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) emphasised the calamity of missing it and described it as loss of family and wealth, when he said: “Whoever misses ‘Asr prayer, it is as if he has lost his family and his wealth.”
All prayers have their great rewards for performing them and great punishment for missing them out without excused,
Allah knows best.
All prayers are important and compulsory to be prayed on time. I know you may be referring to the middle prayer which Allah stated in the Qur'an.
Allah says “Guard strictly (five obligatory) As‑Salawaat (the prayers) especially the middle Salaah (i.e. the best prayer). And stand before Allaah with obedience [and do not speak to others during the Salaah (prayers)]” [al-Baqarah 2:238]
Here the middle prayer is Salaah Al 'Asr.
This is the view of most of the scholars, and it is the correct and reliable view, because of the evidence to that effect in the Qur’aan and the Sunnah.
Al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasaa’i narrated that Zurr ibn Hubaysh said: We said to ‘Ubaydah: Ask ‘Ali about the middle prayer. He asked him and he said: We used to think that that was Fajr, until I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say on the day of al-Ahzaab: “They distracted us from the middle prayer, ‘Asr prayer.” This report states that it is ‘Asr in the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). The argument for it being Fajr is strong, but the correct view is that it is ‘Asr.
It shows that 'Asr is a prayer that needs to be prayed without delayed. The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) emphasised the calamity of missing it and described it as loss of family and wealth, when he said: “Whoever misses ‘Asr prayer, it is as if he has lost his family and his wealth.”
All prayers have their great rewards for performing them and great punishment for missing them out without excused,
Allah knows best.