Want to pray 3 times a day? Well here's a fatwa!!!

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Re: Want to pray 3 times a day? Well here’s a fatwa!!!

^ so basically the argument is that the hadith where rain is mentioned is not sahih (even though its in Sahih Muslim too, not just Tirmidhi), and that it actually was raining at the time but the hadith did not mention it?

Now I can quote three more ahadith from Sahih Muslim (not tirmidhi), aside from the two I’ve quoted here. One of those is:

Book 004, Number 1523:

'Abdullah b. Shaqiq reported: Ibn 'Abbas one day addressed us in the afternoon (after the afternoon prayer) till the sun disappeared and the stars appeared, and the people began to say: Prayer, prayer. A person from Banu Tamim came there. He neither slackened nor turned away, but (continued crying): Prayer, prayer. Ibn 'Abbas said: May you be deprived of your mother, do you teach me Sunnah? And then he said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) combining the noon and afternoon prayers and the sunset and 'Isha' prayers. 'Abdullah b. Shaqiq said: Some doubt was created in my mind about it. So I came to Abu Huraira and asked him (about it) and he testified his assertion.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/004.smt.html#004.1523

Note no mention of rain, journey, sickness or anything else. Since we’re seeing stars in the hadith we can presume no rain. No journey. And no hardship, Ibn Abbas is merely addressing them after the afternoon prayer. No mention of rain in the earlier hadith, infact an explicit negation of it. How can the ulema make consensus against such “sahih” ahadith by supposing that it was raining at the time?