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Praying for Goat

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Ishaq told me, Ibn Shumayl told us, Umar ibn Abi Zaydah told us, Awn ibn Abi Juhaifa told us, on the authority of his father, Abi Juhaifa, who said:

I saw Bilal bring a goat and set it on fire, then he called for prayer. I saw the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, come out in a robe, rolled up, and pray two rak’ahs towards the goat, and I saw the people and animals passing in front of him from behind the goat.

As for your statement in the following hadith, it only indicates your ignorance of the Arabic language:

From the book

Umdat al-Qari Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari - (31/432)

5786 - (Ishaq) told me, (Ibn Shumayl) told us, (Umar ibn Abi Zaydah) told us, (Awn ibn Abi Juhaifa) told us, on the authority of his father (Abi Juhaifa) who said: I saw Bilal come with a goat, so he planted it, then he established the prayer. I saw the Messenger of God come out in a cloak, rolled up, and prayed two rak’ahs towards the goat, and I saw the people and animals passing in front of him from behind the goat.

Meanings of some words:

Anza: a stick with an iron bottom

The hadith was mentioned in the chapter on prayer in the chapter on the imam’s covering being a covering for those behind him, as he narrated it there on the authority of Abu al-Walid on the authority of Shu’bah on the authority of Awn, to the end.

His saying in “Banzah” with the opening of the “ayn” and “nun” and “zay” and it is longer than a stick and shorter than a spear and it has a “zaj” (like “zajj” of the spear).

His saying in “Hillah” which is a lower garment and a “cloak” and it is not called a “Hillah” unless it is two garments and it is pluralized as “Hall” and they are the Yemeni cloaks

and in it is that rolling up the sleeves in prayer is permissible and when there is a profession and a need for it and it is from humility and the negation of arrogance and conceit.

Al-Qamoos Al-Muheet - (1/667) And he stabbed

someone with an anazah, which is a spear between a stick and a spear, with a point in it .

The hadith explains that he, may God bless him and grant him peace, placed it in front of him not for him to pray on it, but to be a screen for prayer (i.e. a boundary and divider in front of him) so that it would separate him from anything that might pass in front of him, and so that no one would pass in front of him while he was praying.

The imam’s cover is a cover for those praying behind him.

I know what the meaning of goat is

Oh, you ignorant people of Arabic and your book, what does this mean in your book:

What does it mean?

(Al-Fandik) (Isaiah) ( Is-33-11 ) ( You will conceive with grass, you will bring forth stubble; your soul will be consumed by fire.)

(Al -Fandik) (Ezekiel) ( Ez-41-6 ) (And the chambers were room to room thirty-three times, and they entered into the wall of the house for the chambers around it, so that they would be able to stand, but they would not be able to stand in the wall of the house.)

(Al-Fandik) (Ezekiel) ( Ez-41-7 ) (And the chambers were enlarged , and they encompassed it upward and upward; for the circumference of the house went upward and upward around the house. Therefore the breadth of the house was upward, and so from the bottom it went up in the middle.)

[ Jesuit translation ]-[Sg 5 -4]-[ My beloved sent his hand through the hole, and my insides moved for him] Can you explain this Jesuit wisdom??

But they are excused for rejecting it because they have no advantage over animals

like a foal, as their book says.

(Al-Fandik) (Ecclesiastes) ( Eccl-3-19 ) (… Man has no advantage over beast, for both are vanity.)

(Al-Fandik) (Job) ( Jb-11-12 ) (But man is empty, without understanding; and like a wild donkey man is born )

Isa 28:27 The threshing of the corn is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel turned over the cumin; but the threshing of the corn is beaten with a rod, and the cumin with a stick.