بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Prayer beads▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 10th, Jumada Al-Aakhirah, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

May Allah preserve you Oh Shaykh, in our village is a masjid where the elders use prayer beads, do I take them and cut them up or do I leave them?

📩🔸Answer:

Advise them and clarify to them the legislated ruling in regards to the prayer beads in a good way.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️The ruling of saying "sadaqa Allah Al-'Atheem" after reciting the Quran▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 10th, Jumada Al-Aakhirah, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

What's the ruling of saying "sadaqa Allah Al-'Atheem" after reciting the Quran?
Benefit us, may Allah bless you.

📩🔸Answer:

It's newly introduced, it is not established in the Sunnah.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️A traveller shortened and combined the prayers, he then went to sit in the Masjid and they prayed but he didn’t pray with them▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 10th, Jumada Al-Aakhirah, 1440H

📩🔹Question:

There is a traveler who has shortened and combined the prayer due to him being a traveller and then entered the masjid before the 'asr prayer and sat through the 'asr prayer and did not pray with the congregation, and when I enquired concerning this he replied "I have already shortened and combined [the prayers]".

What's the ruling of this action of his?

📩🔸Answer:

Him sitting in the masjid while the people are praying is a mistake, the correct thing to do was to pray the prayer with the people and it would've been supererogatory.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

◾️Not storing, saving, contacts which have pictures of animate beings◾️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him - on the 10th, Jumādl Ākhirah, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

If you was to be in a WhatsApp group, or one of your family members, or a friend was to message you and they was to have a picture of something containing a soul on their display picture, what would you do in this situation?

📩🔸Answer:

Do not keep the picture stored in your phone.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

◾️Raising the voice in saying “ﷺ" after the mention of the Prophet ﷺ during the Jumu’ah Khutbah◾️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 20th, Jumada Al-Aakhira, 1440H

📩🔹Question:

What’s the ruling in what relates to saying " ﷺ" after the Prophet ﷺ is mentioned during the Jum’ah khutba, rather it reaches the level that when the Prophet ﷺ is mentioned the attendees busy themselves with saying "ﷺ" while saying "ﷺ" is (mustahab) preferred and the remaining silent during the khutba is considered obligatory?

📩🔸Answer:

The raising of the voices by the attendees during the Khutbah of Jumu'ah in saying "ﷺ" is an innovation which is newly introduced.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

◾️Wives wearing trousers for their husbands◾️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 4th, Jumadaa At-Thaani, 1439H

📝🔹Question:

Is it permissible for women to wear trousers solely infront of their husbands?
May Allah bless you and place blessings in your knowledge.


📩🔸Answer:

It’s not permissible for neither men nor women to wear trousers because it is from the clothing of the disbelievers.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

◾️Does Isbaal -the act of lowering garments below the ankles- invalidate the prayer?◾️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 8th, Rabee' Al-Awwal, 1436H

📝🔹Question:

What’s the ruling on letting the thobe or trousers pass beneath the ankles during prayer? Is it permissible to pray in this state or does it invalidate the prayer.

📩🔸Answer:

It’s not permissible to let the thobe pass below your ankles, in the prayer or outside it. The one who prays whilst their garments are below the ankles their prayer is still sound but they are sinning.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Can an elderly lady cut her hair?▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 23rd, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

Is it permissible for a elderly lady to cut her hair?

📩🔸Answer:

Yes it's permissible, as long as it does not resemble her to men nor to the sinners amongst the womenfolk.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Plucking white hairs▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 23rd, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

What is the ruling of plucking white hairs from ones head?

📩🔸Answer:

It's disliked upon the position of the majority of the people of knowledge.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
(لَا تَنْتِفُوا الشَّيْبَ، فَإِنَّهُ نُورُ الْمُسْلِمِ، مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَشِيبُ شَيْبَةً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُ بِهَا حَسَنَةٌ، وَرُفِعَ بِهَا دَرَجَةً، أَوْ حُطَّ عَنْهُ بِهَا خَطِيئَةٌ)
"Don't pluck the white hairs, for it is the light of a Muslim, there is not a Muslim that grows a white hair while in a state of Islam except that Allah writes for him a reward, and raises him by way of it a level or removes a mistake from him by way of it."
[Reported by Ahmed, Abu Dauud, by way of 'Abdullah bin 'Amr]

And Anas bin Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, said:
"It's disliked for a man to pluck his white hairs from his head and beard."
[Reported by Muslim]

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Should a person fast with their land of residence or the country they’re currently in?▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 28th, Sha'baan, 1439H

📝🔹Question:

Oh Shaykh Hassan, may Allah bless you.

I am currently in Jordan, do I start the fast the day the people of Yemen start fasting?

Or do I fast alongside the people of this land?

Benefit us, may Allah reward you with good.

📩🔸Answer:

Fast with the people of the land your in.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Fasting with ones land of origin or the country he currently in?▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 28th, Sha'baan, 1439H

📝🔹Question:

If Yemen declares the first day of Ramadhaan to be on A-Arbi'aa (wednesday) and Sa'uudiyyah did not observe the sighting of the crescent and thus declared Al-Khamees (thursday) the first day of Ramadhaan in Sa'uudiyyah.
The question is do the Yemeni migrants in Sa'uudiyyah start the fast on Al-Arbi'aa or on Al-Khamees?

📩🔸Answer:

They fast alongside the people of the land that they are living in.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️The pillar of giving salaam in the prayer is its utterance▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 24th, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

Which is the pillar in the prayer in regards to the 'salaam' is it the turning or the uttering of the 'salaam' or is it both?

📩🔸Answer:

The uttering of the 'salaam'

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Saying "Allah knows best" while knowing the answer▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 24th, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

If I was to be asked regarding the religion or regarding a worldly affair and said "Allah knows best", is this permissible, may Allah reward you with good.

📩🔸Answer:

If the questioner was in need of the answer and there was nobody else to answer him then it's not permissible for you to withold and to conceal knowledge.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

◾️Regress in religious commitment by a husband◾️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 24th, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

If a husband was practicing at the beginning of the marriage then he befriended bad company, and became negligent in regards to the prayer in the masjid and merely prays in the house whenever he likes, and does not ever listen to advise.
How is he to be treated baring in mind she got children with him?

📩🔸Answer:

She reminds him of Allah, and those early days when he used to be upon good, while supplicating for guidance for him.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Opposing the truth and it's people has a detrimental affect and it reduces a person's standing▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 28th, Sha'baan, 1439H

📝🔹Question:

We heard your warnings from Shaykh Rabee' Al-Madkhali, whereby you said he is not upon correctness and that he has disunited the callers in Yemen due to his approach on affairs, but do we free ourselves from him and his followers and deal with them in line with the principle of Walaa wal baraa (allegiancing and disallegiencing for the sake of Allah)?

And what do we understand from the statement of Al-Albaani: "we are with Rabee' in knowledge but not in approach."?

📩🔸Answer:

Ahlusunnah likewise, until very recently, were with Shaykh Rabee'. They venerated and loved him, until he aided the trialed Baraamikah in their assault against the dawah of our Shaykh, Shaykh Muqbil and the dawah of our Shaykh, Shaykh Yahya and Dammaj, the centre of knowledge, as well as the men of the Salafi Da'wah in Yemen. So this bore its affect on him, and aid is sought with Allah.

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️ Which is more virtuous, to lead the prayer or performing the athaan?▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shuayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 4th, Saffar, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

Our sheikh Abu Hamza may Allah bless you, which is more virtuous, the imaam or the mua'thin (the one who makes the call for prayer)?

📩🔸Answer:

The people of knowledge have differed in regards to which is more virtuous into various opinions:

The first of them:
That leading the prayer is more virtuous, this is the mathab [the position] of the Hanafeeyyah (those who attribute themselves to Abu Haneefah) and the most commonly known opinion of the Maalikeeyyah (those who attribute themselves to Imaam Maalik) and some of the Shaafi'eeyyah (those who attribute themselves to Imam Ash-Shaafi'ee), and it is one of the reported positions of Ahmad.

The second:
That making the Athaan (call to the prayer) is more virtuous, this is the opinion of Ash-Shaafi'ee and the majority of his companions, and it is one of the reported positions of Ahmad, and this is the opinion that Imaam An-Nawwawi and Shaykhul Islaam have chosen.

The third:
They are both the same in virtue, this is one of the opinions of the Hanifeeyah and Maalikeeyah and Shaafi'eeyah.

The fourth:
If he knows that he is able to fulfill all the rights of being the imaam and all of its characteristics then it is more virtuous, and if he is not able, then the Athaan is more virtuous, this has been said by the Maalikeeyah and Shaafi'eeyah.

Those who have given preference of the Imaam over the Mua'tthin have used as evidence that the Prophet ﷺ and the rightly guided caliphs were Imaams and were not from those who performed the Athaan and likewise the major scholars after them.
And also from the evidences they use is that only the one who is most fit and most virtuous is to be chosen to lead (unlike the athaan) as it has come in the hadeeth of Maalik Ibn Al-huwayrith - may Allah be pleased with him - whereby he said: the Prophet ﷺ said to us:《"...one of you perform the Athaan and the eldest of you should you lead the prayer."》
And the hadeeth of Abi Mas'ood Al-Ansaari -may Allah be pleased with him- said: the Prophet ﷺ said:《"the one who is well versed in the book of Allah is to lead the people (in prayer), and if they are equally versed, then the most knowledgeable of them of the sunnah, if they are equal in that, then the one who made hijrah (migration from the lands of sin and disbelief to the lands of obedience and Imaan) first, and if they are equal in hijrah then the earliest one to accept islaam."》

And those who have preferred the Athaan have used as evidence, all of that which has been affirmed from the Ahaadeeth which show the virtues of the Athaan.
And they have answered ( to which was previously mentioned) of the adherence of the Prophet ﷺ to leading and likewise those who came after him from the caliphs and the scholars that they did not perform the Athaan as they were busy rectifying the affairs of the muslims, the job which nobody could have done except them, so they had no time to do the Athaan nor keep track of its time, as for leading the people, then they would of had to pray, and that which supports this explanation is the statement of Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab -may Allah be pleased with him- reported by Al-Bayhaqi with a authentic chain of narration that he said "if i could have endured the responsibilities of the Athaan whilst being a caliph then I would have performed the Athaan." End of speech from the book 'Al-majmoo3' (3/78)

Shaikh Al-islaam -may Allah have mercy on him- said:
"as for his leadership ﷺ and the leadership of the rightly guided caliphs, then this was something assigned for him, for it is indeed a job for the greatest Imaam, and it was not possible to combine between being the Imaam and performing the Athaan, thus being the Imaam in their respect was more virtuous than the Athaan due to their specific roles, even if it may be that the Athaan is better according to the majority of the people"

End of speech from 'Al-fataawa Al-kubraa (5/321)

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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Sleeping on your stomach▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shuayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 9th, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

May Allah preserve you, Oh Shaykh, a questioner asks, does sleeping on the stomach in the masjid have any prohibition in it may Allah reward you with good?

📩🔸Answer:

The correct opinion is that there is no prohibition in it, and all of the Ahaadeeth of prohibiting sleeping on the stomach are not authentic.


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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️The affair of honour and humiliation is with Allah alone▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shuayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 28th, Thil-Qi'dah, 1438H

📝🔹Question:

What is your opinion, Oh Shaykh, in regards to the one who wants to bring down Shaykh Yuusuf Al-'Inaabi due to his refutation against Shaykh Rabee' Al-Madkhalee, may Allah reward you with good?

📩🔸Answer:

No one is able to bring down anybody rather this affair, all of it, is for Allah alone, He endues with honour whom He wills and He humiliates whom He wills, so long as the slave adheres to the true religion of Allah and is truthful in his adherence to it then Allah will raise him, [Allah said]:
{يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَاتٍ}
"Allah will exalt in degree those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge."
[Surat Al-Mujaadila:11]

However if he inclines towards falsehood and opposes the truth then Allah will humiliate him, [Allah said] :
{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحَادُّونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُولَٰئِكَ فِي الْأَذَلِّينَ}
"Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, they will be among the lowest (most humiliated)."
[Surat Al-Mujaadila:20]


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بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

▪️Are the people called out by the names of their father's or their mother's?▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 5th, Jumadaa Al-Aakhir, 1439H

📝🔹Question:

Are the people on the day of judgement called by the names of their father's or their mother's?

📩🔸Answer:

Ibn Al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy upon, said in his book (Tuhfatul-Mawluud):
"The tenth part in clarification that the creation are called, on the day of judgement, by the names of their father's, not their mother's:
This is that which is correct, and that which the authentic, clear, sunnah points towards, and which has been textually mentioned by the Imaams; the likes of Bukhari, and other than him, Bukhari in his 'Saheeh', said:
"The chapter of the people, on the day of judgement, being called by the names of their fathers and not their mothers."
He then mentioned in the hadeeth of Ibn 'Umar saying:
"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
(إذا جمع الله الأولين والآخرين يوم القيامة يرفع الله لكل غادر لواء يوم القيامة فيقال هذه غدرة فلان بن فلان)
"When Allah gathers the early comers and the late on the day of judgement, each group will be made to raise a banner, by Allah, on the day of judgement, and then someone will say: this is group is that of 'so-and-so the son of so-and-so'."

And in the 'sunnan' of Abu Dauud, with an excellent chain of narration, by way of Abu Dardaa, wherein he said:
"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
(إنكم تدعون يوم القيامة بأسمائكم وأسماء آبائكم فحسنوا أسماءكم)
"You will be called out, on the day of judgement, by your names and the names of your father's, so chose good names."

And some of the people claimed that they will be called out by the names of their mothers and they took as a evidence a hadeeth which is not authentic, and it is found in the 'Mu'jam' of Tabaraani, by way of Abu Umaamah from the Prophet ﷺ, that he said:
(إذا مات أحد من إخوانكم فسويتم التراب على قبره فليقم أحدكم على رأس قبره ثم ليقل يا فلان بن فلانة فإنه يسمعه ولا يجيبه ثم يقول يا فلان بن فلانة فإنه يقول أرشدنا يرحمك الله)
"When one of our brothers dies and you even out the sand on his grave, let there be one of you who stands at the head part of the grave and say "Oh so-and-so the son of -mother's name-", because he can hear you but is not able to reply, then let him say [again] "Oh so-and-so the son of -mothers name-" for he will say "Direct us, may Allah have mercy upon you"."

And [the aforementioned source] likewise [mentions] the hadeeth:
"A man said: Oh Messenger of Allah[ﷺ], how about if his mother's name is not known?, he ﷺ then said:
(فلينسبه إلى أمه حواء يا فلان ابن حواء)
"He is attributed to his mother Hawwaa [the wife of Prophet Adam ﷺ], Oh so-and-so the son of Hawwaa."

They [those that hold this position] likewise said, it is possible that a man's lineage is not established for him in what relates to his father, like the one who was denied this by accusation of fornication and the cursing of the spouses which takes place in the negation of a son belonging to him, or a child born from fornication [ both parties involved not being married], then how is one called by his father's name?

The answer to this is, that the hadeeth is unauthentic by consensus of the people of knowledge, as for he who has been deprived of lineage through his father then he is called out upon, on the day of judgement, with that which he is called out upon in the Dunyaa [this worldly life], either by his father or by his mother, and Allah knows best."
[end of the speech of Ibn Al-Qayyim]

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▪️When does 'thuhr' start?▪️

Answered by Shaykh Abu Hamza Hassan bin Muhammed Ba Shu'ayb - may Allah preserve him- on the 28th, Shawwaal, 1440H

📝🔹Question:

What time does 'thuhr' begin?

And how does one know the time the sun begins to descend?
With some elaboration, may Allah reward you with good.

📩🔸Answer:

Nawawi, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:
"The Ummah have unanimously agreed that the entrance the time period [called] 'thuhr', is at the decline of the sun [from its peak], the unanimous agreement has been relayed by a large body [of scholars]."
[end of speech,source: Al-Majmuu' (3/21)]

And the description of the decline of the sun, Nawawi, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:
"Our companions, may Allah have mercy upon them, have said:
The declining of the sun is the leaning away of the sun from the centre of the sky after reaching mid-day, and the sign of this is that the shadow appears after disappearing [due to an object being directly under the sun], and that is when, [for example], a person's shadow at the start of the day starts long, and as the sun rises, it's length decreases, and when it reaches mid-day, the shadow stops [beneath the person], then when the sun starts to decline the shadow is now reappearing or growing.
If you wanted to know; has the sun declined from [it's] mid-day [position] or not, then place a stick, or anything else, into the ground, on flat even ground, in line of the sun, then place an indicator to where the shadow is at that moment in time, then start watching it, if the shadow starts to decrease then you know the sun has not reached the point where after it will start it's decline, continue watching it until the shadow starts to grow, you will know the sun's decline when the shadow starts to grow [in the opposite direction it came from].
Our companions have stated:
The amount of shadow at the point of the sun decline differs at different times [seasons, etc] and places [countries, provinces, etc], the shortest the shadow, at the decline of the sun, will be at is in the summer, due to length of the day in the summer, and the longest the shadow will be at, is in the winter, due to the shortness of the days in the winter."
[End of speech, source: Al-Majmuu' (3/24)]

There is another way to know when the sun declines from its mid-day peak, and it's by counting the hours of the day.

Ibn 'Utheymeen, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:
"As for knowledge of the decline of the sun, from it's mid-day peak, using hours [units of time]; is by halving the hours between sunrise and sunset, this is when the sun declines from it's mid-day peak, if we was to say that the sun rises at six o'clock, and sets at six o'clock, then the decline of the sun from its mid-day peak would be at twelve o'clock."
[Sharh Al-Mumti' (2/102)]

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Translated by:
Abu 'Abdirrahman 'Abdullaah bin Ahmed Ash-Shingaani

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