Most persons after retirement have plenty of time to write but I am still trying to get organized for being able to aford time for "productive" or intellectually satisfying type of work. I have been unable to catch the ends successfully.
Now this 'booking together of "Jum'ah-Sunday" may sound a product of necessity or result of my laziness or some such excuse but it sure provides for some thinking on the lines of
"Jam'a bain-as-salatain" which is regularly performed by all during Hajj time (Zduhr and 'Asr combined and Mahghrib and Issha combined, with one azdan and two iqamats) which is familiar to those of my brothers and sisters who have had the good fortune of performing Hajj.
However this" jama'a bainassalatain" (combining of two salats) is performed on other occasions too. Most commonly in travelling (other than for Hajj)
Hanafi teaching does not consider combining two salats in travel to be "allowed" (Jaaiz) but Ahl-hadis consider it allowed and what is more, all forms of combinings too
Combining two salats can be:
Only for Zduhr +'Asr and Maghrib+Issha
a)Performed near Zuhr time (Asr being performed earlier than its time)
b) Performed at Asr time (Zuhr time having passed)
c) Performed at a time midway between the two times
same holds for Maghrib and Issha prayers.
Hanafi teaching considers the last way of combining (c) better then in (a) or (b), if you do have to do the combining.
There are ahadeeth for all such combinings, so it is not that other Imams have formed their own opinion based upon their whims.
Imam Abu Hanifa however bases his teaching on the Aya, ...." prayers are enjoined on believers at stated times" (#103, Sura 4). Of course there are ahadeeth for praying at stated times also.
Combining is also allowed (not by Hanafi teaching) during bad weathers (when travelling to Masjid may be difficult or hazardous), or other times when it is impossible, for example, due to severe illness or some other dire circumstances.
There is no doubt that the prophet SAWS did perform combinations under such conditions and although travelling and (in the present times) other conditions are considerably better, the Islamic scholars consider that we should continue to take advantage of those relaxations as long as the prophet's teaching supports it.
So, although I am basically Hanafi follower, I do perform combinings in travelling even though it may be easy for me to perform separately. Some times I also perform two salalts if in my masjid the non-Hanafi Imam performs combined salats during bad weather (I consider it advantageous to have performed two salats with Jama't)
Many Hanafi followers do not do what I do.
I do it with the understanding that after all the prophet did perform such salats inspite of that Ayat's insisting on "stated times", so it should be OK for us, sinners too.
I'm sure the Imams made 'rules' after considering everything and they knew more than I do, so if I try to "enjoy' a benefit from other Imam's teachings, I am still NOT going against Sunna of the prophet SAWS. May Allah keep us rightly guided on the straight path-ameen.
You can have your own reasons one way or the other and I have no reasn to argue with you that my thinking is correct or better etc.
Qur'an Majeed does not say "five times" and there is so much flexibility available because of that which is provided by the performance of times by our great teacher Mohammad SAWS. who set the times and their variations (all the ahadeeth for such times) for us
What is more we get the rewards for 50 times by performing 5 times salat, the Grace of Allah SWT. This is so remarkable deen and how can we be thankful to Allah to have blessed us with it and with the teachings of our prophet SAWS. We would be totally lost without these teachings.
Now this 'booking together of "Jum'ah-Sunday" may sound a product of necessity or result of my laziness or some such excuse but it sure provides for some thinking on the lines of
"Jam'a bain-as-salatain" which is regularly performed by all during Hajj time (Zduhr and 'Asr combined and Mahghrib and Issha combined, with one azdan and two iqamats) which is familiar to those of my brothers and sisters who have had the good fortune of performing Hajj.
However this" jama'a bainassalatain" (combining of two salats) is performed on other occasions too. Most commonly in travelling (other than for Hajj)
Hanafi teaching does not consider combining two salats in travel to be "allowed" (Jaaiz) but Ahl-hadis consider it allowed and what is more, all forms of combinings too
Combining two salats can be:
Only for Zduhr +'Asr and Maghrib+Issha
a)Performed near Zuhr time (Asr being performed earlier than its time)
b) Performed at Asr time (Zuhr time having passed)
c) Performed at a time midway between the two times
same holds for Maghrib and Issha prayers.
Hanafi teaching considers the last way of combining (c) better then in (a) or (b), if you do have to do the combining.
There are ahadeeth for all such combinings, so it is not that other Imams have formed their own opinion based upon their whims.
Imam Abu Hanifa however bases his teaching on the Aya, ...." prayers are enjoined on believers at stated times" (#103, Sura 4). Of course there are ahadeeth for praying at stated times also.
Combining is also allowed (not by Hanafi teaching) during bad weathers (when travelling to Masjid may be difficult or hazardous), or other times when it is impossible, for example, due to severe illness or some other dire circumstances.
There is no doubt that the prophet SAWS did perform combinations under such conditions and although travelling and (in the present times) other conditions are considerably better, the Islamic scholars consider that we should continue to take advantage of those relaxations as long as the prophet's teaching supports it.
So, although I am basically Hanafi follower, I do perform combinings in travelling even though it may be easy for me to perform separately. Some times I also perform two salalts if in my masjid the non-Hanafi Imam performs combined salats during bad weather (I consider it advantageous to have performed two salats with Jama't)
Many Hanafi followers do not do what I do.
I do it with the understanding that after all the prophet did perform such salats inspite of that Ayat's insisting on "stated times", so it should be OK for us, sinners too.
I'm sure the Imams made 'rules' after considering everything and they knew more than I do, so if I try to "enjoy' a benefit from other Imam's teachings, I am still NOT going against Sunna of the prophet SAWS. May Allah keep us rightly guided on the straight path-ameen.
You can have your own reasons one way or the other and I have no reasn to argue with you that my thinking is correct or better etc.
Qur'an Majeed does not say "five times" and there is so much flexibility available because of that which is provided by the performance of times by our great teacher Mohammad SAWS. who set the times and their variations (all the ahadeeth for such times) for us
What is more we get the rewards for 50 times by performing 5 times salat, the Grace of Allah SWT. This is so remarkable deen and how can we be thankful to Allah to have blessed us with it and with the teachings of our prophet SAWS. We would be totally lost without these teachings.
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