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Sunan Abi Dawud 1131 — Four Rak'ahs After Friday Prayer
Praying After The Friday Prayer
Hadith About Four Rak'ahs After Jumu'ah Prayer
Sunan Abi Dawud : 1131
Sunan Abi DawudHadith Number 1131
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ، حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الْبَزَّازُ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم - قَالَ ابْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ قَالَ - " مَنْ كَانَ مُصَلِّيًا بَعْدَ الْجُمُعَةِ فَلْيُصَلِّ أَرْبَعًا " . وَتَمَّ حَدِيثُهُ وَقَالَ ابْنُ يُونُسَ " إِذَا صَلَّيْتُمُ الْجُمُعَةَ فَصَلُّوا بَعْدَهَا أَرْبَعًا " . قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي أَبِي يَا بُنَىَّ فَإِنْ صَلَّيْتَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتَ الْمَنْزِلَ أَوِ الْبَيْتَ فَصَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ " .
Abu Hurairah Narrated from:
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying (this is the version of the narrator Ibn al-Sabbah): If anyone of you prays after the Friday prayer, he should say for rak'ahs. According to the version of the narrator Ibn Yunus, the tradition goes: When you have offered the Friday prayer, pray after it four rak'ahs. He said: My father said to me: My son, if you have said two rak'ahs in the mosque, then you comes to your house, pray two rak'ahs more.
[1] His father is Abū Ṣāliḥ, and it is he who addressed him in the end of the second wording.Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 1131In-book reference : Book 2, Hadith 742English translation : Book 2, Hadith 1126
Summary of Sunan Abi Dawud Hadith 1131
This hadith about four rak'ahs after Jumu'ah prayer gives a direct instruction from the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم. Abu Hurairah reported that if anyone prays after Friday prayer, he should pray four rak'ahs. Another wording says: when you have offered the Friday prayer, pray four rak'ahs after it. The report then adds that if someone prayed two rak'ahs in the mosque and then came home, he should pray two more. For people searching “four rakah after Jumuah hadith” or “Sunnah after Friday prayer,” this narration answers the question from the wording itself. It focuses on the number four and also mentions completing the count between mosque and home.
What we learn from this hadith
- The hadith instructs four rak'ahs after Friday prayer for one who prays after it.
- Another wording gives the same meaning after Jumu'ah is offered.
- Two rak'ahs in the mosque may be followed by two more at home in the report.
- The text centers on prayer after Jumu'ah, not before it.
