Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Can the same soorah berepeated in prayer?

I dont know many suras as I am still learing.Was wondering for tarweeh
prayers can i repeatly say the same ones?.
Praise be to Allaah.
There is nothing wrong with repeating the same soorah in Taraweeh
prayer, or in any other prayer. A person may recite a soorah in the
first rak'ah and repeat the same soorah in the second. The evidence
for that is the general meaning of the verse in which Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"Verily, your Lord knows that you do stand (to prayat night) a little
less than two thirds of the night, orhalf the night, or a third of the
night, and also a party of those with you. And Allaah measures the
night and the day. He knows that you are unable to pray the whole
night, so He has turned to you (in mercy). So, recite you of the
Qur'aan as much as may be easy for you"
[al-Muzzammil 73:20]
Abu Dawood narrated (816) from Mu'aadh ibn 'Abd-Allaah al-Juhani that
a man from Juhaynah toldhim that he heard the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) reciting Idha zulzilat al-ard
[al-Zalzalah 99] in both rak'ahs of Fajr prayer and (he said) I do not
know whether the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) forgot or he recited that deliberately. This report was
classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
'Abd al-'Azeem Abaadi said:
The Sahaabah were uncertain as to whether the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) repeated the soorah because he
forgot, as it was his habit to recite a different soorah inthe second
rak'ah to whathe had recited in the first, so that was not prescribed
for his ummah,or he did it deliberately toshow that it is permissible.
So it is uncertain as to whether itis permissible to repeat a soorah
or not. If it is not clear whether it is permissible or not, then it
is more appropriate to interpret what the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) did as meaningthat it is permissible, because
the basic principle concerning his actions is that they were done to
show what is prescribed, and the idea that he forgot goes against that
principle.
'Awn al-Ma'bood, 3/23
Indeed, there is nothing wrong with repeating a soorah or a verse
within the same rak'ah.
Al-Nasaa'i (1010) and Ibn Maajah (1350) narrated that Abu Dharr (may
Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) stoodreciting a verse and repeating it until
morningcame. That verse was: "If You punish them, they areYour slaves,
and if You forgive them, verily, You, only You, are the All-Mighty,
the All-Wise" [al-Maa'idah 5:118]. Classed as hasan by al-Albaani in
Saheeh al-Nasaa'i.
Al-Bukhaari (5014) narrated from Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri that a man heard
another man reciting "Qul Huwa Allaahu Ahad (Say (O Muhammad): He is
Allaah, (the) One)" [al-Ikhlaas 114] and repeating it. Thenext day he
came to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) and told him about that, and it was as if the man did not think
much of that. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said: "By the One in Whose hand is my soul, it is
equivalent to one-third ofthe Qur'aan."
According to another report: A man stood at the time of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) reciting "Qul Huwa Allaahu
Ahad (Say (O Muhammad): He is Allaah, (the) One)" [al-Ikhlaas 114] at
the end of the night, and he did not do more than that, but the
Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) approved of his
repeating the same soorah.
Al-Haafiz said:
The one who recited it was Qataadah ibn al-Nu'maan. Ahmad narrated via
Abu'l-Haytham that Abu Sa'eed said: Qataadah ibn al-Nu'maan stayed up
for the whole night, reciting "Qul Huwa Allaahu Ahad (Say (O
Muhammad): He isAllaah, (the) One)" [al-Ikhlaas 114] and he did not
recite anything else.... And al-Daaraqutni narrated another version of
this hadeeth via Ishaaq ibn al-Tabbaa' from Maalik, in which it says:
"I had a neighbour who would spend the night in prayer and would not
recite anything other than"Qul Huwa Allaahu Ahad (Say (O Muhammad): He
isAllaah, (the) One)" [al-Ikhlaas 114]. End quote.
We ask Allaah to enable you to memorize His Book, and to act upon it.
And Allaah knows best.

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