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October 4, 2025·Rabiʻ II 12, 1447 AH·5:42 AM·11m·Saturday-Fajr

When You Can't Stand for Prayer, Do This

Hadith on Adapting Prayer According to Physical Ability - Imran ibn Al-Husayn

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Summary

This lecture discusses a hadith from Riyadul Saliheen (Gardens of the Righteous) by Imam Al-Nawawi, focusing on the chapter about repentance. The speaker presents a hadith narrated by Imran ibn Al-Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him), a companion of the Prophet who suffered from severe illnesses including dropsy (fluid accumulation) and hemorrhoids throughout his life. The Prophet Muhammad instructed him to pray standing, and if unable, then sitting, and if unable, then lying on his side, demonstrating Islamic flexibility in religious practice based on physical capacity.

Transcript

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الله جن اللهم جن اللهم جن اللهم جن اللهم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاه والسلام على رسول الله. اما بعد يقول الحافظ الفقيه الامام النووي رحمه الله تعالى في رياضه في باب التوبه في الحديث الثاني وعن ابي نجيد عمران بن الحسين الخزاعي رضي الله عنهما. الحافظ النووي رحمه الله رياض الصالحين 2 نجيد عمران بن الحسين رضي الله عنه ابو نجيد name عمران name الحص النووي رضي الله عنهما الله عمران بن الحسين رضي الله عنه اسلامق ‏differans andنable صلى الله عليه ‏amions meaning meaning that he had many illnesses that he fought throughout the entir of life he mainly suffered from ae which was in the books حديث الاستسقاء مرض الاستسقاء waser to english more modern asema so fluid ‏to that bec and become this com of a deficiency inver function or in kidney function impossible for us to know which of those was exactly the diagnosis but ‏suffنه also suff from البواسير البواسير which are hemid commonly known as hemoroids where the fine veins in the rectum become very inflamed ‏And you know in our days today these things have some kind of recourse for person who is suffering from these types of things in the propet's days wouldaim a person's life very easily couldaim a person's life and because of hisid.

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ى عليه وسلم رضي الله الانصار رضي الله عنه صلى الله عليه وسلم صلي قائما فان لم تستطع فقاعدا فان لم تستطع فعلى جنب هذه من روايه عمران بن الحسين رضي الله عنه ونعلم سبب هذه الروايه اذ صاحب البواسير لا يستطيع اي قد لا يستطيع القيام قد لا يستطيع الجلوس فقال له النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم صلي قائما فان لم تستطع فقاعدا فان لم تستطع فعلى جنب رضي الله عنهم صحيح البخاري.

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