{"id":22857,"date":"2025-01-20T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:43:17","slug":"hazrat-abdur-rahman-bin-awf-radhiyallahu-anhu-leads-the-salaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=22857","title":{"rendered":"Hazrat Abdur-Rahman bin Awf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) Leads the salaah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22881\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/English_101_2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the journey of Tabook, the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) were traveling with Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) left the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) to go and relieve himself.<\/p>\n<p>Since there was not a lot of time remaining for the fajr salaah, and the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) feared that the time would expire, they did not wait for Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) to return, but requested Hazrat Abdur-Rahman ibn Auf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) to lead them in the fajr salaah.<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Abdur-Rahman ibn Awf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) accepted and commenced the salaah. While he was leading the salaah, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) returned and joined the salaah. Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) stood in the saff behind Hazrat Abdur-Rahman ibn Awf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) began reciting tasbeeh in order to inform Hazrat Abdur-Rahman ibn Awf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) that Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) has returned so that he may move back, and Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) may move forward and lead the salaah.<\/p>\n<p>When Hazrat Abdur-Rahman ibn Awf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) realized that Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was standing behind, he intended to move back, however Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) indicated to him with his hand to remain where he was and continue leading the salaah.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the salaah, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) addressed the Sahaabah (radjiyallahu \u2018anhum) saying, \u2018You have done well,\u201d or he said to them, \u201cYou have acted correctly (by commencing the salaah and not waiting for me.\u201d In other words, the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) were concerned at that time that Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) should not be displeased with them due to them not waiting for him, however Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) consoled and comforted them that in such a situation, they had done the correct thing.<\/p>\n<p>(Sunan Abi Dawood #149, Sharhuz Zurqaani Alal Mawaahibil Ladunyah 2\/208, Bazlul Majhood 1\/638-643)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the journey of Tabook, the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) were traveling with Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) left the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) to go and relieve himself. Since there was not a lot of time remaining for the fajr salaah, and the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) feared that the time would expire, they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,880,774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-hazrat-abdur-rahman-bin-auf-radhiyallahu-anhu","category-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22882,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions\/22882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}