Why did the Prophet delay Isha until the city slept?

Alhamdulillah. Continuing in from.

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So this chapter in the chapters of prayer regarding the times of salah this chapter is dedicated to the sunnah. It is a very seldomly practiced sunnah in mass or in j but it is common and can be common when a person prays alone or in his home. And that is the sunnah of delaying past the beginning of its time to the very end of the first half of the night or the first third of the night. As long as it does not pose a difficulty for the people doing so. foram.

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Muslim and so narrates that the prophet sallall.aii Wasam once made very late. So late that the majority of the night had gone had passed by. So late that it became very dark in Medina. You know what does that mean it became very dark? Well number one the horizons are very dark. Number two you know people are usually awake. They have their little lights in their in their respective homes, but as time goes on, this one goes to bed and that one goes to bed and this one goes to bed until there's no more light. Everyone's sleeping really. She says, "And to the point that people that were waiting in the masid for the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam to lead them in also fell asleep. And then he emerged and he led them in as he then turned to the companions after finishing salah and said, "I have just or we have just prayed at the best at the peak of its time. Had it not been a difficulty upon my nation, I would have prescribed this time." However, you know, it's a difficulty to wait that long to interrupt sleep especially people are going to wake up for at night, people are going to wake up for fud etc. So it becomes difficult and the sunnah was that the companions would usually make and remain there in the masjid. They would stay there. He encouraged them that if you do not have something categorically necessary to do then just stay in the masid until which is why another reason that we see that one of the longest prayers he would make is and then one of the shortest prayers is of the audible prayers. So he'd make long and then after that people would make sunnah etc. By the time a person has made for a lengthy amount of time done thear done the salah is at the doors. So they would wait they would wait until he would come out and lead them in salah. But he wouldn't come out every night at the same exact night at the same exact time. Sometimes he would come out earlier, sometimes later. And if he had something to deal with, he would deal with it and then lead in lead them inev because as we will hear, he highly discouraged any goings and comingings and any conversations after the sunnah is that when a person makes salah, they go home and go to sleep. This is the sunnah. Unless there are a couple of things that are exempted from this general sunnah. And so the next chapter is the discouragement of the prophet sallall.aii Wasam that a person sleep before is before making is or that a person have conversations and talks after. Now does this mean that after we make everyone is silent as we scurry to our cars and leave without saying anything to anyone? No, that's not the meaning of the narration. The meaning of the narration is hanging out, right? In colloquial terms, hanging out. , you know, they say, chillaxing after come over. We have a card game. We have a this game. We hang out and talk until the wee hours of the night. This is something which is discouraged. And so the prophet sallall.aii Wasallam would discourage sleeping before Aisha and having extended conversations and you know company over and so forth. After forch.

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For. So he mentions here two narrations regarding this point which is the disapproval of the prophet sallall.aii Wasam of sleeping before making Aisha and conversing for extended times for extended periods of time after without there being some need to do so. Something happens something out of the ordinary it's not customary that needs to be dealt with. Sure. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had many of his or some of his war meetings after in private because the hypocrites would not come for or would seldom come for and it was dark. And so he was able to meet with his generals after in the cover of dark. And then he would make dua and Allah would provide each of them a heavenly lantern that would guide them to their homes after they were completed after their talks were concluded. And so if a person has a need after a however the norm is that triggers nighttime or sleep routine. And so Abu Ba said that the that the messenger of Allah wasallam used to discourage sleeping before and conversing after. And this narration is in Bkari Muslim and Annis narrates that we waited for the prophet sallall.aii wasallam one evening to lead us in to the point that the first half of the night was almost upon us. And then he exited from his home and he prayed and led us in prayer after which he turned to us and said. So now he is talking he is addressing them. Right? So we take from this that seeking knowledge after is exempt from this rule. Right? This is where the scholars take this from. And then he addressed us and said indeed the people generally have prayed and gone to sleep but you all are waiting here for and you are in salah as long as you are waiting for salah. So this entire time that you were waiting you were actually counted as being in salah as long as you were waiting for salah. This narration is also in Bkari Muslim.