Tuesday 10 January 2017

Ruling on Praying for Long Life

Sinaan bin Rabee’ah said, ‘I heard Anas bin Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) saying: “My mother took me to the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) and said, ‘Make supplication for your young servant. He said: ‘O Allaah give him a lot of wealth and children, make him live long and forgive him his sin.” 

Thaabit narrated that Anas said: “The Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) supplicated for me thus, ‘O Allaah, give him a lot of wealth and children and make him live long.”

Shaykh al-Albaanee commented:

This hadeeth contains the permissibility of making supplication for an individual to have a long life just as it is the custom in some Arab countries contrary to the view of some scholars. And what supports it is that there is no difference between it and making supplication for happiness and the like, since each of that has been preordained; so ponder over it.

Source: Silsilah as-Saheehah, vol. 5, p. 287-288


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