#764: Praying for Muslim Leaders on the Minbar (Pulpit)
764 QUESTION
Common innovation on Fridays:
_قال الشيخ حمود رحمه الله :
_ونؤمن بأن الدعاء للحكام والولاة على المنابر من بدع الجمعة التي لم ترد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وصحابته الكرام .
Shaykh Hamūd bin ‘Uqla as-Shu’aybī رحمه الله said:
❝And we believe that the du’a that is made for the rulers and leaders upon the Mimbars (pulpits) is an innovation of Jumu’ah that has not been narrated from the Prophet (ﷺ) and his noble companions.❞
Assalāmu alaykum warahmatullāh
Ustādh..
I find it hard to agree with this I don’t know why.
Pls is there any chance that this might be very correct?
Jazākumullāhu khayran
ANSWER:
Wa Alaykum Salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh.
It’s very correct. It wasn’t seen by the Predecessors as something necessary.
It wasn’t recorded in the time of the Rāshidīn that any of their Wulāt in any of the Regions did it. Even though there are Narrations that Abū Mūsā Al-Ash’arī – radiyallāhu ‘anhu – prayed for Umar bn Al-Khattāb on the Minbar and that Ibn ‘Abbās prayed for Alī bn Abī Tālib, these Narrations came with very weak chains and fail to cross the conditions of Hijjah.
In the later days of the Mulūk, the Ulamā viewed it as obnoxious evidently because of the stains of oppression that the Mulūk meted on people. Ash-Shāfi’ī referred to this in Al-Umm, Ibn Hazm in Al-Muhallā and Ibn Qudāmah Al-Maqdisī in Al-Mughnī
Rather what is known was the general Du’ā:
اللَّهُمَّ أَبْرِمْ لِهَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَمْرًا رَشِيدًا، تُعِزُّ فِيهِ وَلِيَّكَ، وَتُذِلُّ فيه عَدُوَّكَ، وَيُعْمَلُ فِيهِ بِطَاعَتِكَ
Which was said to be done by many of the Salaf right from the era of the Tābi’īn as was mentioned by Ibn Abī Shaybah in his Musannif
Some of the Ulamā mentioned that it was Permissible by way of generalization not by way of specific mention of the Ruler.
The position favoured in the Shāfi’ī Madh’hab was that it is neither obligatory nor Sunnah and just a matter of permissibility as long as it is not containing of extremism. I think this was referred by An-Nawawī in Al-Majmū’.
Ash-Shātibī – rahimahullāh – was clearly against it in _Al-I’itisām_ and Shaykh Muhammad bn ‘AbdilWahhāb.
It is also known that the Fuqahā and the People of Ilm mentioned prayer for the Wulāt as one of the Prayers or things that if the Imām began to do on the Minbar on Jumu’ah it becomes permissible for the listeners to do other things. This was referred by Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalānī in the Fat’h and Al-Barzali in the the Shar’h of Al-Kharshī.
If that is the case with regards the Leaders of those days, what then is the situation and condition of those that do that these days.
We ask Allāh to be merciful upon us and the Ummah in it’s entirety, amīn.
Lakumullāh
19th Rājab, 1440AH
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