Acts of worship

عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ رضي الله عنه قَالَ:جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مِنْ أَهْلِ نَجْدٍ، ثَائِرُ الرَّأْسِ، يُسْمَعُ دَوِيُّ صَوْتِهِ، وَلَا يُفْقَهُ مَا يَقُولُ، حتَّى دَنَا، فَإِذَا هُوَ يَسْأَلُ عَنِ الإِسْلامِ،فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: «خَمْسُ صَلَوَاتٍ فِي اليوْمِ وَاللَّيْلَةِ»، فَقَالَ: هَلْ عَليَّ غَيْرُهَا؟ قَالَ: «لَا، إِلَّا أَنْ تَطَّوَّعَ».قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: «وَصِيَامُ رَمَضَانَ»، قَالَ: هَلْ عَليَّ غَيْرُهُ؟ قَالَ: «لَا، إِلَّا أَنْ تَطَّوَّعَ».قَالَ: وَذَكَرَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الزَّكَاةَ، قَالَ: هَلْ عَليَّ غَيْرُهَا؟ قَالَ: «لَا، إِلَّا أَنْ تَطَّوَّعَ».قَالَ: فَأَدْبَرَ الرَّجُلُ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: وَاللهِ، لَا أَزِيدُ عَلَى هَذَا وَلا أَنْقُصُ. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: «أَفْلَحَ إِنْ صَدَقَ». وفي رِوايةٍ: «دَخَلَ الجَنَّةَ إِنْ صَدَقَ»

تحميل الملف الصوتي

Ṭalḥah ibn ‘Ubaydullāh narrated that

1. A man from the people of Najd, with dishevelled hair, came to God’s Messenger (peace be upon him). We could hear his voice [as he was coming] but did not understand what he said, until he was close to the Prophet. He was asking about Islam.

2. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: ‘Five prayers during the day and night’. He asked: ‘Any more as a binding duty?’ The Prophet said: ‘No, unless you wish to voluntarily add more’.

3. God’s Messenger said: ‘And fasting during the month of Ramadan’. He asked: ‘Any more [fasting] as a binding duty?’ The Prophet said: ‘No, unless you wish to give more’.

4. The Prophet then told him about zakat. The man asked: ‘Any more duty?’ The Prophet said: ‘No, unless you wish to add at your own behest’.

5. The man turned to leave and said: ‘By God, I shall not do more than this and will not omit any of it’.

6. The Prophet said: ‘He will be successful, if he is true to his word’. A different version puts it: ‘He will be in Heaven if he is true to his word’.

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Attend regularly to your prayer and pay zakat; for, whatever good you do for your own sake you shall find it with God. God sees all that you do.

(2: 110)

It was in the month of Ramadan that the Qur’an was revealed: a guidance for mankind and a self-evident proof of that guidance and a standard to distinguish right from wrong. Therefore, whoever of you is present in that month shall fast throughout the month.

(2: 185)

Take a portion of their money as charity, so that you may cleanse and purify them thereby.

(2: 103)

Keep up prayer when the sun is on its decline, in the darkness of the night, and recite the Qur’an at dawn, for the recitation of the Qur’an at dawn is indeed witnessed. (78) At night, rise from your sleep to recite it in prayer, as an additional offering from you. Your Lord may thus raise you to an honourable station.

(17: 78-79)

He who does good of his own account does himself good thereby.

(2: 184)