Hadith 30

(The book) ‘Fiqh Al-Reza-asws’ – He-asws said: ‘Do not recite in the obligatory Salat, Surahs Al-Zoha, and Al-Inshirah, and Quraysh, and Al-Mawazateyn’. It is prohibited from reciting these in the obligatory Salats, because it is reported that Surahs Al-Zohar and Al-Inshirah are one Chapter, and like that Surahs Al-Feel and Quraysh are one Chapter, and Al-Mawazateyn is from the ‘Ruqya’ (spell), these two aren’t from the Quran. There have been inserted in the Quran’. And it is said that Jibraeel-as had taught these two Chapters to Rasool-Allah-saww. If you want to recite one of these four Chapters, then recite Surah Al-Zoha and Al-Inshirah, and do not keep a gap between the two, and like that (Surahs) Al-Feel and Quraysh. And as for Al-Mawazateyn, do not recite these in the obligatory salat, and there is no problem in the optional Salats’’. [82]
And the Scholar-asws said: ‘Recite in the Salat Surahs Al-Mursalaat, and Al-Shams, and Chapters like these; in Al-Zohr Salat Surahs Infitar and Zilzaal and their like; and in Al-Asr salat Surahs Al-Adiyaat and Al-Qariah and their like; and in Al-Maghrib Surahs Al-Teen and Al-Tawheed and their like; and during the day of Friday and the night of Friday, Surahs Al-Jummah and Al-Munafiqeen’’. [83]
And he-asws said: ‘And do not recite in the Prescribed (obligatory Salat) any deficient Chapter, and there is no problem with it in the optional’’. [84]
And the Scholar-asws said: ‘Do not gather between the two Chapters in the obligatory salat’. And he-asws was asked about a man reciting half the Chapter in the Prescribed (obligatory Salat), then he forgets, so he takes in another (Chapter) until he is free from it. Then he remembers before he performs Ruk’u. He-asws said: ‘There is no problem with it’. And you should recite in your Salats, all of them on the day of Friday, and the night of Friday with Surahs Al-Jummah, and Al-Munafiqeen, and Al-A’ala, or in one of these, there is no repeating upon you. If you were to remember it from before you do Ruk’u that you had recited half a Chapter, then return to Surah Al-Jummah, and if you do not remember it except after having recited half a Chapter, then continue in your Salat’’. [85]
Explanation – His-asws words, ‘So he takes in another (Chapter)’ is compatible to what is reported by the Sheykh in the ‘Saheeh’ (correct Hadeeth), from Abu Abdullah-asws regarding the man reciting in the Prescribed (obligatory Salat) with half the Chapter, then he forgets, so he should take in another until he is free from it, then he remembers before he does Ruk’u, he-asws said: ‘He should do Ruk’u and it does not harm him’’.