Every time he enters the forum he says Subhaan Allaah and the members say tasbeeh and takbeer and tahleel

Question: 112147

We notice that in many forums, a member enters and says “subhan Allah” and in response, the second member says “Allahu Akbar” and so on, they keep doing the same every time a member enters the forum. What is the ruling on this? May Allah bless you!.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

If the one who is entering
the forum wants to remind his brothers to say tasbeeh and tahleel and
takbeer, so he says tasbeeh or takbeer and the other members respond to him,
and remember Allaah, then there is nothing wrong with that. It comes under
the heading of mentioning Allaah in a gathering, concerning which there is
an important, well known hadeeth:

It was narrated that Abu
Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah, may He be glorified and
exalted, says: ‘I am as My slave thinks I am, and I am with him when he
remembers Me. If he remembers me to himself, I remember him to Myself; if he
remembers Me in a gathering, I remember him in a gathering better than it;
if he draws near to Me a handspan, I draw near to him an arm’s length; if he
draws near to me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a fathom’s length; if
he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.”

Narrated by al-Bukhaari
(7405) and Muslim (2675).

And he (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “No people sit together in a
gathering where they do not remember Allaah or send blessings upon their
Prophet, but it will be a source of regret and sorrow; if He wills He will
punish them and if He wills He will forgive them.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi
(3380) and Abu Dawood (5059); classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh
al-Tirmidhi.

The reservations in this
case have to do with adopting a specific number of times or order of
reciting, such as if he starts with tasbeeh and someone else thinks that he
has to follow it with takbeer and tahmeed. Believing that it is to be done
in a certain order, or that there is a specific number of times for reciting
dhikr for which there is no evidence in sharee’ah, or believing that it is
Sunnah to recite dhikr in this manner – all of these are bid’ahs or
innovations.

The scholars pointed out
that singling out a time or place or specific manner for acts of worship
that was not narrated (in sharee’ah) is bid’ah or innovation. In that case
it is called bid’ah idaafiyyah (additional bid’ah) because it is prescribed
in principle, but is rejected because of how it is done.

Al-Shaatibi (may Allaah
have mercy on him) said: Bid’ah (innovation) refers to something that is
newly invented in matters of religion that appears similar to that which
prescribed, by which people intend to go to extremes in worshipping
Allaah.

This includes adhering to
certain ways and manners of worship, such as reciting dhikr in unison, or
taking the birthday of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) as an Eid, and so on.

It also includes doing
certain acts of worship at certain times for which there is no basis in
sharee’ah, such as always fasting on the fifteenth of Sha’baan (yawm al-nusf
min Sha’baan) and spending that night in prayer.

End quote from
al-I’tisaam (1/37-39).

See also the answer to
question no. 11938.

And Allaah knows best.

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