Sunnah & Hadith Source of Prayer Method
Question:
Is method of saying salah (prayers) and number of raka'hs for each salah mentioned in Imam Malik's Maw'tah which is considered to be the first book of Hadith? When was the method and number of raka'h for salah first written down in any book? Was it Bukhari, Muslim or any other book? I am just wondering what is the basis of claim of people who derive salah from hadith and not from the established sunnah of prophet (pbuh).
Regards
Mujahid Zaheer
Answer:
As far as I found in Malik, Bukhari and Muslim, these are the points I can make:
I do not know any one who has come to understand how to pray merely by reading a book of Hadith. Many will say that they have learnt this from ahadith but when you delve into it you will see that in fact they have learnt the basics from their school or their father, etc. and then later they have looked into ahadith to learn the details (that are not really part of Sunnah).
Incidentally, the fact that almost all people learn their prayers from their previous generation (and not books of Hadith) is one of the strongest evidences to support our view relating to the source of Sunnah.
Abdullah Rahim
March 16, 2004
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