Is Taraweeh Compulsory? -Mufti Abu Layth

with that is taraweeh compulsory no it is not the Ottoman I disagree on the status of taraweeh now many people some people sorry they all accept that taraweeh was something that the Prophet did what status did he'd like what ranking did this prayer take they so they accept let me simplify this Muslims accept that there was a prayer and that the Prophet introduced sorry not introduced that he prayed himself during the month of Ramadan in isolation they

agree on this then they disagree on what how that prayer ranks amongst our duties and they disagree on how this prayer should be prayed so they disagree on all of that they just accept that the Prophet did pray we're not quite sure I mean we are like it's not quite agreed upon how what he prayed but we understand that he did pray and then everybody has kind of taken their own analysis of what what happened we also accept that the Prophet never ever prayed in the mosque right so we all

accept this about the Prophet that he prayed some prayers at home that's it privately they were private prayers now some people have understood there are we to be like a semi or a quasi obligatory prayer so it's they don't call it obligatory like but some of them will say it's like some of the Hanafy awill will place it towards of Rajab almost all those who will say it's a somnom are Kedah and emphasized or never will say you're sinful for leaving it now that is

that makes it quasi obligatory because if you're sinful for leaving it then it must be an obligation so leaving the semantics aside this is what they believe that a person is sinful if he doesn't pray throw away that was not the understanding that was inherited the city of the Prophet the city of the Prophet people madinat al munawwara with the Companions living then thousands of them that were buried there and their students and then their students of their students being the turbine and their students being the Tubbataha in those who come after them and amongst them Imam Malik he transmits this

understanding when he's asked about our we Imam Malik said that this is it's a recommended prayer it's recommended you can prayed in my Malik never used to pray that are we in the Masjid and he actually said that I don't personally he said I prefer for people to pray in at home however he said let the common people like let people also pray in in the mosque like don't prevent them from praying in the mosque and don't turn them away like let the mosques also be busy with people because it gives people an opportunity to spend time in the machine where they otherwise may not

that said Imam Ali did himself never performed there are we pray in the masjid so its status is generally as I understand it as well as in our Molly taught that it's just a recommending it's like an Ethel but slightly higher status that's all it's not a tsunami a kadai it's not something and emphasize sunnah it's just it's good to pray that's all if you pray alhamdulillah that good praying is better than not praying it but if you don't pray taraweeh it's not a sin of any sort neither is it something that you should be so guilty about or anything like this

and the Prophet if he wanted us to to do that he would have made it very clear to us but he didn't so that's the first issue the status of Terraria the second issue is how many raka ad do we pray how many Ricard did the Prophet pray well once again we're not exactly sure all we know for certain T's the Prophet prayed something some narrations like eyeshadow the Allahu Allah in body states that the Prophet would only pray eight or a cot and in fact what he was simply praying

was what other people called tahajud the night pray but so this taraweeh has a similar status to tahajud except it's a slightly like a notch or two above that's all now so there is that understanding some people have said no that you know we will that what you pray is twenty Ricard and they have some narrations saying that people used to pray xx God so after the Prophet had passed away in a workers time I mean there wasn't that much stability but in umar radiyaallahu

anhu time he did setup Gemara in the masjid and made one imam lead them this was something that Omar rhodiola on kind of introduced okay if the this opens a different discussion was this a bit aha that's a different discussion but this was something that all Murayama who are introduced and now how many riccati they pray Imam Malik brings the narration that they only pray date and he brings generation that they prayed 20 so including whitter 11 or including

which are 21 for example or some people say 23 now both of these narrations are transmitted by man Malik some people in Medina used to pray many more they used to pray up to 36 so in the time of romanovna Abdul Aziz and and some people used to pray up to 40 or a cart and imam ahmed often I think I think it's transmitted that he would pray about 40 my understanding is as in line with what people like all the other worker if Nora be another Maliki and including other non Maliki's like Imam show Connie has explained that taraweeh has no fixed

number that it is just a it is a it is a recommended act and you can do it it has no number it's unlimited now technically by that understanding you could just one could just say how about just praying some thing like for a cart or 2 rakaat or 6 rock art now I would say although the least we have in a hadith form explained about the prophets pray himself was 8 so one could set that as the lower limit and then anything above

that that said so that said I would feel if a person even prayed any nuffin any natholi pray that it would count I would feel that it would count that's my personal understanding so if a person technically even prayed for or even prayed to I would feel that that still counts but I would advise people in general when speaking about are we to set the the lower bar what we know of the prophets pray and the least that the prophet prayed was 8 so I would set that as the lower bar and the top end would just be unlimited so whatever a person

wants to pray if you want to pray 8 you want to pray 12 you want to pray 16 you want to pray 20 you want to pray 40 you can do as you please okay so that's my understanding on the number of record for our yeah cool so I hope that makes sense and all this this what people are saying you know oh it must be 20 or it must be ito it's all nonsense it's all nonsense people the what is it this son cut my problem some big problem so these are already Bates

people very old outdated we need to really kind of jettison all this old baggage and move on there's no big did the fact if people are praying in hamdulillah and if they not saw the next let's move on to some of these questions to do is Ramadan alright somebody said sounds like kindergarten theology all right I like it I like it all right so question I'm often on