Revive This Abandoned Sunnah of Praying Nawaafil

One of the abandoned Sunnah is for a person to perform his voluntary prayers where people would not see him and this is something Muslims do not strive for [today]. The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) stated, as recorded by Abu Ya’laa with a saheeh chain: “The voluntary prayer of a man where people do not see him is worth twenty-five times more than in a place where people would see him.” This hadeeth is saheeh[1]

Source: Sunan Mahjoorah, p. 32 by Shaykh Muhammad Sa’eed Raslaan (may Allah preserve him)

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[1] It was graded saheeh by al-Albaanee in Saheeh al-Jaami’ as-Sagheer (3821)