BISMILLAHI RAHMAN RAHEEM
God Almighty said, “ Indeed, God and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who have believed, bless him and grant him peace with complete peace ” ( Surat Al-Ahzab : 56).

Scholars say: Praying for the Prophet is a mercy from God, a request for forgiveness from the angels, and a supplication from the believers. So what is required of us is to pray to God to increase His reverence and honor for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace

Although the texts have confirmed that God Almighty granted His Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, countless honors, our request from God for His Prophet is considered an expression of the extent of our love for him, and our love for the Messenger is a sign of sincerity of faith, as it was mentioned in the hadith: “None of you believes.” So that I will be more beloved to him than his father, his son, and all of humanity,” as other narrations stated in this sense. Ibn Abd al-Salam said: Our prayer for the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - is not an intercession for him, for our example does not intercede for his like, but God commanded us to reward those who do good to us, and if we are unable to do that, we reward him with supplication, so God, when he knew our inability to reward our Prophet, guided us to prayer on him

_Regarding the legitimacy of this prayer, there are opinions_

1: The first opinion is that it is obligatory in general without limitation, but at least once it fulfills its sufficiency

2: It was said that must be performed in many cases without being restricted to a number

3: it is obligatory whenever it is mentioned

4: It is obligatory in a gathering

5: It is obligatory in every supplication

6: It is obligatory whenever it is mentioned

This prayer can be performed in any form, and the best of it - as many scholars have said - is the Abrahamic prayer , which is said after the final tashahhud in the prayer, because the authentic hadiths stated that it is what the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - taught to his companions when they asked him after the revelation of the aforementioned verse, and in The wording of this Abrahamic prayer is slightly different from the narrations

Al-Bukhari narrated in the Book of the Prophets from his Sahih on the authority of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Laila who said: Ka’b ibn Ujrah told me and said: “Shall I not give you a gift that I heard from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace? I said, ‘Yes, so give it to me.’ He said: I asked the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and I said: O Messenger of God.” God, how can prayer be upon you, O People of the House, for God has taught us how to greet. He said, “Say: (O God, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad as you blessed Abraham and the family of Abraham. You are Praiseworthy and Glorious. O God, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad as you blessed Abraham and the family of Abraham. You are Praiseworthy and Glorious)

The benefits that we derive from the virtue of praying upon the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, most of them are religious benefits related to doubling the reward and reward, and the hadiths desiring it are many, including his saying, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, “Whoever prays upon me, may God’s blessings be upon him ten times,” narrated by Muslim, and his saying, “ No one He greets me unless God returns my spirit to me until I return his greetings to him.” Narrated by Abu Dawud, and his saying, “The people closest to me on the Day of Resurrection are those who pray the most for me.” Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi and said: a good hadith. His saying, “The miserly is the one in whose presence I am mentioned and he does not pray for me.” Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi and said: Hassan Sahih .

I say this and ask God for forgiveness for me and for you, and God Almighty knows best

By : Khaleeafah Ahmad Tijjani