What Did the Companions Do During Prayer

Musnad Ahmad - From Musnad Bani Hashim - Beginning of Musnad Abdullah - Hadith No.: 2647

On the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: There was a beautiful woman praying behind the Messenger of God. He said: Some of the people would go forward in the first row so that he would not see her, and some of them would go back until they were in the last row. When he bowed, he would look from under his armpits. So God Almighty revealed concerning her: “And We have certainly known those among you who go forward, and We have certainly known those who lag behind.”

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Although the hadith is explicit in saying some of the people and not some of the companions, but the forger specified the companions with it… and therefore it is necessary to point it out… and we will respond to what the forger said from the reality of the noble hadith and not from the point of view of the forger

. First: Praise be to God for the blessing of Islam, which disciplined its followers and refined their morals and brought them out from the darkness of their ignorance before it to the light after it, then it legislated for them specific controls for what most people cannot control themselves in terms of desires.

Second: It is known that women are among the most influential desires on men. Since this was the case and people differed after the Messenger of God in nature and degrees of faith, some of them would rush behind the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, so that they would not be tempted by something outside of prayer and their hearts would be preoccupied with it. Some of them were weak as humans in resisting their desires, despite having practiced the discipline and refinement of Islam, so they would delay in search of a stealth opportunity, as a person with weak faith in the Islamic community cannot think of anything more than a glance due to the existence of legislative controls and the implementation of God’s command. Since this was the case, God set controls for such things, including the woman’s body being covered and her delaying the men in prayer and clarifying the virtue of the first rows and such. If we say, for the sake of argument, that generalizing the action of the one who was delaying the men who were delaying the men’s glance to all Muslims is permissible, then this means that entire nations that tempt their women with unveiling and nudity and men expose them to glances and more are fallen nations.

Third: This incident has established in the minds the truth of the connection between heaven and earth and its knowledge and monitoring of human actions through the Qur’an that is revealed – as mentioned in the hadith, God Almighty says : “And We have certainly known those among you who forge ahead and those who lag behind” (Al-Hijr 24) , and that He, the Almighty , “knows the treachery of the eyes and what the breasts conceal” (Ghafir 19) … The doubt that the deceiver presented proves that Muhammad did not flatter the Muslims in falsehood and that God is aware of all human beings and that He revealed His Qur’an to be in line with events in order to raise, teach and create men who spread His religion in all parts of the earth.

ourth: It is self-evident that Muslims at that time were in the stage of education and upbringing, so it is reasonable that they would do such a thing. However, it is not reasonable that someone whom God chose to carry His message would spy on his neighbor’s wife while she was bathing with premeditation and ambush, then commit adultery with her, then kill her husband, then marry her, as stated in 2 Samuel 11/2-27 : “And it came to pass, in the evening, that David arose from his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful to look upon. So David sent and asked about the woman.” Then one said, “Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him. And he lay with her, (for she was purified from her impurity). Then she returned to her house . And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, saying, ‘I am with child.’ So David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David . Then Uriah came to him, and David inquired of Joab’s welfare, and of the people’s welfare, and of the success of the war . Now Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house . And they told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house. Then David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from your journey

Why did you not go down to your house?” Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day . And David called for him, and he ate and drank in his presence, and made him drunk. And he went out at evening to lie down on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house . And in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah . And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the front of the fierce battle, and retreat from behind him, that he may be struck down and die. And it came to pass, when Joab besieged the city, that he set Uriah in the place where he knew the valiant men were . And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab, and some of the people of the servants of David fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died . Then Joab sent and reported to David all the matters of the war . He charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished speaking to the king about all the matters of the war, if the king’s anger is kindled and he says to you , ’ Why did you come so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they were shooting from the wall? Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubosheth?’ Did not a woman throw a millstone at him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez?

Why did you come near the wall? Then say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’ So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him for . And the messenger said to David: “The people have acted arrogantly against us and have come out to us in the field, and we have been against them to the entrance of the gate .And the archers shot down your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants died, and your servant Uriah the Hittite also died. And David said to the messenger, “Thus say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword will devour both one and the other. Make your fight stronger against the city and destroy it. Make it stronger. And when Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband . And when the mourning was over, David sent and took her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD .