Tuesday 17 June 2014

This Common Practice is Not Sunnah



Question: Some people recite, “Subhaana Rabbika Rabbil-‘Izzati ‘Amma yasifoon…” [1]at the end of a gathering or at the end a supplication; and others recite Soorah al-‘Asr at the end of a sitting, is this Sunnah or bid’ah?

Response: This is not Sunnah. The Sunnah with regard to concluding a sitting it to recite, “Subhaanaka Allaahumma wa bi hamdika, ashhadu an laa ilaaha illa anta, astaghfiruka wa atoobu ilayk.”  As for what has been reported from some of the companions that [whenever they meet] they would not part until one of them had recited Soorah al-‘Asr in its entirety to the other, it maybe that it occurred from some of them, but I am not aware that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) did it.

Taken from Fataawaa Noor alaa ad-Darb by Shaykh al-Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him)


[1] Soorah 37: 180-182

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