wa'l-hamdu Lillaah wa laailaaha ill-Allaah wa laa hawla wa laa quwwata
illa Billaah - Glory be to Allah and praise be to Allah and there is
no God but Allah and there is no power and no strength except in
Allah) four timesinstead of doing the prostration of recitation?
Because it is said that if you come to a verse in which there is a
sajdah (prostration), instead of prostrating you can say the tasbeeh
mentioned above. Is there any basis or evidence for this?.
Praise be to Allaah.
The fuqaha' are agreed that the prostration of recitation is
prescribed, because of the verses and hadeeths that are narrated
concerning that. When the Muslim comes to a verse in which there is a
sajdah, it is prescribedfor him to prostrate, whether that is in
prayer or outside of prayer. Muslim narrated in his Saheeh (81) that
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "When the son of
Adam recites a verse of prostration and prostrates, the Shaytaan
withdraws, weeping and saying: Woe unto him – according to the report
of Abu Kurayb: Woe unto me– the son of Adam was commanded to prostrate
and he prostrated, so Paradise will be his; I was commanded to
prostrate and I refused, so Hell is mine."
So it is essential for him toprostrate and it is not valid to recite
tasbeeh or any other dhikr instead ofthat; rather this is an
innovation which should be denounced.
It was narrated that 'Aa'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said:
The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)
said: "Whoever introduces into this matter of ours anything that is
not part of it will have it rejected." Agreed upon.
Al-Nawawi said:
This hadeeth represents an important principle of Islam, and it is an
example of the concise speech of the Prophet (blessings and peace of
Allah be upon him), for it clearly rejects every innovation and
fabrication. End quote.
And the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: "you
must adhere to my Sunnah and the way of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.
Hold on to it and cling fast to it. And beware of newly-invented
matters, for every newly-invented matter is an innovation and every
innovation is a going astray." Narrated byAbu Dawood (4607) and
classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (mayAllah have mercy on him) was asked about some
of them saying, "We hear and obey, Your forgiveness Our Lord, and to
You is our destiny" when not doing the prostration for a verse of
prostration because one isnot in a state of purity or is unable to
prostrate.
He replied: There is no basis for that and it cannot take the place of
the prostration; rather that is makrooh to do that, because nothing
concerning that was narrated. End quote.
Al-Fataawa al-Fiqhiyyah al-Kubra, 1/194
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy onhim) was asked: When
weread the Book of Allah and we come to a sajdah, and we are in a
place other than the mosque or prayer room, such as the school and the
like, we say Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah wahdahu laa shareeka lah,
lahu'l-mulk wa lahu'l-hamd wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadeer (there is
nogod but Allaah alone, withno partner or associate. His is the
Dominion and toHim be praise, and He is able to do all things) four
times. Is that permissible or not? If it is not permissible, what
should we do?
He replied:
When the reader comes to a verse of prostration, if he is in a place
where he can prostrate, then it ismustahabb for him to prostrate, but
it is not obligatory according to the more correct opinion, because it
is proven that 'Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allah be pleased with him)
recited a verse of prostration when he was delivering the khutbah on a
Friday, and he came down (from the minbar) and prostrated, then he
recited it on the following Friday and did not prostrate, and he
said:Allah has not enjoined us to prostrate unless we want to. And
when he didnot prostrate, he did not say something instead of
prostrating, because that is an innovation. The evidence that is that
Zayd ibn Thaabit recited Soorat al-Najm in the presence ofthe Prophet
(blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and he did not prostrate,
and the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) did not
teach him to say anything instead of prostrating.
And Allaah knows best.
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