Documents of the Right Word

Shahâdat. The second one is to perform namâz.” It is stated in
another hadîth-i-sherîf, reported by Abû Dâwûd and written in the
book Halabî: “Allâhu ta’âlâ has commanded to perform namâz
five times daily. Allâhu ta’âlâ will forgive those who make a proper
ablution, perform these prayers of namâz at their proper times,
and observe the rukû’ (bowing) and sajda (prostration) in them.”
Another hadîth-i-sherîf reads as follows: “Allâhu ta’âlâ has
made it farz for His born slaves to perform namâz five times daily.
If a person makes a beautiful ablution and performs namâz
correctly, on the rising day his face will shine like the full moon and
he will pass the bridge of Sirât as fast as lightning.” The author of
the book Riyâd-un-nâsihîn ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ relates, “I have
studied books of Hadîth. I have seen that it is stated in various
hadîth-i-sherîfs reported by more than twenty Sahâbîs: ‘A person
who omits a prayer of namâz without any religiously sanctioned
excuse will become a disbeliever.’ ”
It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, which is reported by hadrat Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ and exists in the books Târîh-i-Bukhârî and
Kitâb-ul-îmân: “He who gives up the namâz will become a
disbeliever.” That is, a person who is not sorry for neglecting the
namâz and does not feel shame towards Allâhu ta’âlâ for this
reason, will take his last breath without îmân.
There is detailed information in this respect in the (Turkish)
book Se’âdet-i ebediyye.
A hadîth-i-sherîf, which the book Bukhârî reports from Abû
Sa’îd-i-Hudrî, states, “The thawâb that will be given for the namâz
performed in jamâ’at is twenty-five times as much as that which is
given for the namâz which one performs by oneself.” However,
according to a hadîth-i-sherîf reported by Abdullah ibni ’Umar, it
is “twenty-seven times as much.”
A hadîth-i-sherîf, which is reported by Dâr-i-Qutnî
‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ and is written in Kunûz, states, “A person
who lives near a mosque should perform his namâz in the
mosque.”
It is stated in a hadîth narrated in the books Firdaws-ul-ahbâr
and Riyâd-un-nâsihîn: “Not to go to the mosque though one hears
the adhân would be a sign of being a munâfiq.”
It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf reported in Imâm-i-Ahmad’s
‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ book Musnad and in Kunûz: “If a person
forgets something during his salât, he should make two additional
sajdas!”
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