He said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, say: "Five prayers that God has imposed upon His servants. Whoever performs them, not omitting anything from them out of disregard for their right (11), God Almighty will make for him a covenant on the Day of Resurrection that He will enter him into Paradise. And whoever comes with them but has diminished (12) something from them, he has no covenant with God; if He wills, He will punish him, and if He wills, He will forgive him" (13). It was narrated from Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh that a Bedouin came to the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and said: O Messenger of God, what has God imposed upon me regarding prayer? He said: "Five prayers." He said: Is there any other upon me? He said: "No, unless you perform something voluntarily." The man said: By the One who sent you with the truth, I will not add to them, nor will I diminish from them. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "The man has succeeded if he is truthful." It is agreed upon (14). The addition of prayer may be in the supererogatory prayers (sunan), so it is not determined that it is an obligation. Furthermore, it is a prayer performed on a riding animal without necessity, so it is a supererogatory prayer (nāfila) like the regular sunnah prayers (al-sunan al-rawātib).
الحواشي
- (11) In M: "with them."
- (12) In the original: "decreased."
- (13) Narrated by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on Maintaining the Time of Prayers, from the Book of Prayer, and in: Chapter on One Who Does Not Perform Witr, from the Book of Witr. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/100, 328. And Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on What Has Been Said Regarding the Obligation of the Five Prayers and Maintaining Them, from the Book of Establishing Prayer. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/448, 449. And al-Nasa’i, in: Chapter on Maintaining the Five Prayers, from the Book of Prayer. al-Mujtaba min al-Sunan 1/186. And al-Darimi, in: Chapter on the Witr, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Darimi 1/370. And Imam Malik, in: Chapter on the Command to Perform Witr, from the Book of Night Prayer. al-Muwatta’ 1/123. And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 5/316, 317, 322.
- (14) Narrated by al-Bukhari, in: Chapter on Zakat Being Part of Islam, from the Book of Faith, and in: Chapter on the Obligation of Fasting Ramadan, from the Book of Fasting, and in: Chapter on How One Is Made to Swear, from the Book of Testimonies, and in: Chapter on Zakat, and that one should not separate between those who are joined, nor join between those who are separated, for fear of the Sadaqah, from the Book of Legal Stratagems. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/18, 3/30, 235, 9/29. And Muslim, in: Chapter on Explaining the Prayers Which Are One of the Pillars of Islam, from the Book of Faith. Sahih Muslim 1/41. It was also narrated by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on ‘Abd Allah ibn Maslamah narrated to us, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/93. And al-Nasa’i, in: Chapter on How Many [Prayers] Were Obligated in the Day and Night, from the Book of Prayer, and in: Chapter on the Obligation of Fasting, from the Book of Fasting, and in: Chapter on Zakat, from the Book of Faith. al-Mujtaba 1/184, 4/97, 8/104. And al-Darimi, in: Chapter on the Witr, from the Book of Prayer 1/370. And Imam Malik, in: Chapter on the Comprehensive [Hadiths] on Encouraging Prayer, from the Book of Travel. al-Muwatta’ 1/175.
