Al-Hikmah Hassan Somali

‏الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله اما بعد:

Question 180: What is the ruling on moving to a different location after praying the obligatory prayer in the masjid to establish the Sunnah prayer, the optional prayer?

Then the sunnah is to separate between the obligatory prayer, the faridah, and the voluntary prayers, the nafila, either by changing location, by moving, or by speaking. Due to the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, the authentic hadith:

‏عن معاوية بن أبي سفيان:

فإن رسول الله ﷺ أَمَرَنَا بذلكَ؛ أَنْ لا تُوصَلَ صَلَاةٌ بصَلَاةٍ حتَّى نَتَكَلَّمَ،
أَوْ نَخْرُجَ

📕 صحيح مسلم

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to do this, that one prayer should not be joined to another directly until we speak or leave to another place.”

Al-Hafidh ibn Hajar (رحمه الله تعالى) said, “The sunnah is to separate between the obligatory prayer, the faridah, and the nafila, the optional prayer, either by changing location, by moving, or by speaking.”


And as mentioned by Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (رحمه الله تعالى),

والأفضل أن يتحول إلى بيته

— it is best for a person to go and pray the supererogatory prayer, the optional prayer, in their home.

وإلا فموضع آخر من المسجد

— or, if not, then they should move to another place within the masjid.

And the supererogatory prayer, it is better to pray it in the house. Why? Because we know the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ:

عن زيد بن ثابت رضي الله عنه:

فَإِنَّ أَفْضَلَ الصَّلَاةِ صلاة الْمَرْءِ فِي بَيْتِهِ إِلَّا الصَّلَاةَ الْمَكْتُوبَة

📕 أخرجه البخاري (7290)


“The best prayer of a person is the prayer in the home except for the obligatory prayer.”

So the sunnah is to separate between the obligatory and the optional prayers either by changing location, moving, or by speaking. So, the very least is to speak — the very least is for a person to speak.

The wisdom behind this, as mentioned by Ahlul-‘Ilm, is so that the obligatory prayer is not connected to the voluntary prayers. So that they do not become confused with one another, as mentioned by Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen and others before him. Other scholars mention, like we find in Awn al-Ma’bud, the explanation of Sunan Abi Dawood. Some of the scholars, they mention that the wisdom of this is to maximize the number of places where the individual is prostrates.

Wallahu a’lam. And Allah knows best. But as we mentioned, it is established from the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ to separate between the obligatory and voluntary prayers either by changing location, by moving, or by speaking based upon the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. This is something that is recommended.

وجزاكم الله خيراً وبارك الله فيكم.


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• #PrayerEtiquette
• #SeparatePrayers
• #ChangingLocationInMasjid
• #SunnahAndFaridah
• #IslamicGuidanceOnPrayer

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‏الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله اما بعد:

Question 180: What is the ruling on moving to a different location after praying the obligatory prayer in the masjid to establish the Sunnah prayer, the optional prayer?

Then the sunnah is to separate between the obligatory prayer, the faridah, and the voluntary prayers, the nafila, either by changing location, by moving, or by speaking. Due to the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, the authentic hadith:

‏عن معاوية بن أبي سفيان:

فإن رسول الله ﷺ أَمَرَنَا بذلكَ؛ أَنْ لا تُوصَلَ صَلَاةٌ بصَلَاةٍ حتَّى نَتَكَلَّمَ،
أَوْ نَخْرُجَ

📕 صحيح مسلم

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to do this, that one prayer should not be joined to another directly until we speak or leave to another place.”

Al-Hafidh ibn Hajar (رحمه الله تعالى) said, “The sunnah is to separate between the obligatory prayer, the faridah, and the nafila, the optional prayer, either by changing location, by moving, or by speaking.”


And as mentioned by Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (رحمه الله تعالى),

والأفضل أن يتحول إلى بيته

— it is best for a person to go and pray the supererogatory prayer, the optional prayer, in their home.

وإلا فموضع آخر من المسجد

— or, if not, then they should move to another place within the masjid.

And the supererogatory prayer, it is better to pray it in the house. Why? Because we know the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ:

عن زيد بن ثابت رضي الله عنه:

فَإِنَّ أَفْضَلَ الصَّلَاةِ صلاة الْمَرْءِ فِي بَيْتِهِ إِلَّا الصَّلَاةَ الْمَكْتُوبَة

📕 أخرجه البخاري (7290)


“The best prayer of a person is the prayer in the home except for the obligatory prayer.”

So the sunnah is to separate between the obligatory and the optional prayers either by changing location, moving, or by speaking. So, the very least is to speak — the very least is for a person to speak.

The wisdom behind this, as mentioned by Ahlul-‘Ilm, is so that the obligatory prayer is not connected to the voluntary prayers. So that they do not become confused with one another, as mentioned by Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen and others before him. Other scholars mention, like we find in Awn al-Ma’bud, the explanation of Sunan Abi Dawood. Some of the scholars, they mention that the wisdom of this is to maximize the number of places where the individual is prostrates.

Wallahu a’lam. And Allah knows best. But as we mentioned, it is established from the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ to separate between the obligatory and voluntary prayers either by changing location, by moving, or by speaking based upon the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. This is something that is recommended.

وجزاكم الله خيراً وبارك الله فيكم.


• #TahiyyatAlMasjid
• #PrayerEtiquette
• #SeparatePrayers
• #ChangingLocationInMasjid
• #SunnahAndFaridah
• #IslamicGuidanceOnPrayer

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