Asalamu'alaikum,
Hope all of you brothers are doing well. Inshallah, I will be heading down to the ICNA convention Memorial Day weekend, so let me know if you will be there...
Alhumdulilah, I would like to share with you a sunnah that we have revived in the Masjid here in Vermont and hopefully some of you brothers can revive it in your local Masajid. Every Saturday and Sunday, we have what I call the Fajr club, where a group of ten brothers consistently come to the Masjid for fajr and talk with each other until sunrise. This brings up two related hadith that I would like to share:
1)
Al-Tirmidhi narrated that Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever prays Fajr in congregation then sits remembering Allaah until the sun rises, then prays two rak’ahs, will have a reward like that of Hajj and ‘Umrah.” He said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “In full, in full, in full.”
2)
Muslim also narrated (670) that Sammaak ibn Harb said: I said to Jaabir ibn Samurah: Did you sit with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)? He said: Yes, frequently. He would not get up from the place in which he had prayed Fajr until the sun had risen, and when the sun had risen he would get up. They used to chat and talk about matters of the Jaahiliyah, and they would laugh but he smiled.
-Usman
