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This is, but the prayer which they do not perform, but sleep at its time is better than the one they are offering.” The reporter further interpreted the saying of the Caliph to bury any misinterpretation. The reporter says, “He meant the prayer in the last part of the night. (In those days) people used to pray in the early part of the night. ” It should be observed that the Caliph never called this action his “Sunnah of the Prophet”; rather he called it “ Bid’ah (an innovation in religion ).

To further emphasize it is Bid’ah, he highlighted that the Sunnah of the Prophet (where you observe the Qiyām al-Layl in the middle of the night after waking up from sleep) is far better than what he invented (where under his instructions people observed the prayer in congregations before it’s specified time ). III) Tarawih or Qiyām al-Layl? Ahlu as-Sunnah observed the Tarawih prayer…