Neither pray optional Salat of a night during a month of...
Neither pray optional Salat of a night during a month of Ramazan nor in other (months) in congregation, for it is an innovation, neither pray it during the morning (Tarawih) for it is an innovation, and every innovation is a straying, and every straying, its way is to the Hellfire!
’ ثُمَّ نَزَلَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَلِيلٌ فِي سُنَّةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ فِي بِدْعَةٍ Then he -saww descended and he -saww saying: ‘Little in a Sunnah is better than more in innovation !’ وَ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ نَافِلَةً فِي جَمَاعَةٍ فِي لَيَالِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لَمْ تَكُنْ فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا فِي أَيَّامِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ لَا فِي صَدْرٍ مِنْ أَيَّامِ عُمَرَ حَتَّى أَحْدَثَ ذَلِكَ عُمَرُ فَاتَّبَعَهُ النَّاسُ And the optional Salat in congregation during nights of a month of Ramazan did not happen in the era of Rasool-Allah -saww nor during days of Abu Bakr, nor in most of the days of Umar until Umar innovated that, so the people followed’’.
[6] In a Hadith in the interpretation of the Verse 4:115, we find: وَمَنْ يُشَاقِقِ الرَّسُولَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ الْهُدَىٰ وَيَتَّبِعْ غَيْرَ سَبِيلِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ نُوَلِّهِ مَا تَوَلَّىٰ وَنُصْلِهِ جَهَنَّمَ ۖ وَسَاءَتْ مَصِيرًا {1154:} And whoever contends the Rasool after the Guidance has clarified to him, and he follows other than the way of the Momineen, We will Turn him to what he had turned towards and he will arrive to Hell; and it is an evil fate [4:115] العياشي: عن حريز، عن بعض أصحابنا، عن أحدهما، (عليهما السلام)، قال: «لما كان أمير المؤمنين في الكوفة أتاه الناس، فقالوا: اجعل لنا إماما يؤمنا في شهر رمضان، فقال: لا، و نهاهم أن يجتمعوا فيه، Al Ayyashi, from Hareyz, from one of his companions, from; (It has been narrated) from one of them asws (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ) having said: ‘When Amir-Al-Momineen asws was in Al-Kufa, the people came to him asws and said, ‘Be our Salat leader in these days of ours during the Month of Ramazan’.
So he asws said: ‘No!’ And he asws forbade them to gather during it (Month of Ramadhan). فلما أمسوا جعلوا يقولون: ابكوا في رمضان وا رمضاناه، فأتاه الحارث الأعور في أناس، فقال: يا أمير المؤمنين، ضج الناس و كرهوا قولك، فقال عند ذلك: دعوهم و ما يريدون، ليصلي بهم من شاءوا، When they were not with him asws , they went on saying, ‘Weep in Ramadhan, ‘O Ramadhan!’ Al-Haris Al-Awr came to him asws among a group of people, and he said, ‘O Amir-Al-Momineen asws !
The people are raising a commotion and hated what you asws said’.