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It is narrated that Al Fudayl b.Ayyad (Rahimahu Allah) said:
"The believer speaks little and make a lot, while the hypocrite (munafiq) speaks a lot and make a little.When the believer speaks , it is with wisdom. When he is silent, he is in deep reflection. when he sees , he takes lessons and when he act is a cure. If this is the way you have, then you are in constant worship (of your Lord)."
SOURCE: Hilyatu al Awliya. Vol 8 pag.98 of Abu Nua'ym (Rahimahu Allah)
Any one who tells another make du'aa for me/us with the intention that the person being questioned will benefct making the du'aa, and that the person that makes the request will also benefict because the action by which is asked- as he would benefict by asking someone else to do any virtuous deeds, then this person is following the example of the Prophet (Salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam). This is not considered to be of the questions that are not preferred.
Concerning the one who whose only intention (by petition) is that he can get his need, without having the intention to benefict to him who makes the request, then this person is not among those who have made the Messenger (Salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) as example in this matter. But ratherthis type of request is not preferred, abandone it and come back to Allah in the need and ask is better that to return to the creation in the need and ask to them.(1)
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The hadeeth compiled by Imam Ahmed, Tirmidhi, and Abu Dawud in which Umar Ibn Khataab, ask to the Prophet the permission to do the 'Umrah, then he allowed and said"Do not forget us, my brother, in your Du'aa."'
Shaikh Albani has declared that the hadeeth is false in his notes in Mishkaat al Masaabih and Jaami Al-Da'if' as was clarified by Shaykh Rabee 'in his notes to this book.
Shaykh ul Islaam ibn Taymiyyah in Qa'idah jaliyaah,p. 75
He ( Salla Allahu alaythi wa sallam) would spread his left palm on his left knee, clench all the fingers of his right hand, point with the finger adjacent to the thumb towards the qiblah and fix his sight on it (i.e.the finger).
Also , when he point with his finger, he would put his thumb on his middle finger and sometimes he would make a circle with these two.
When he raised his finger, he would move it supplicating with it and he use to say:
"It is surely more powerful against the devil than iron, meaning the forefinger." (185)
Footnote 185: Muslim, Abu 'Awanaah and Ibn Khuzaimah. Humaida (13/1) and Abu Ya'laa ( 275/2) added with a Saheeh sanad on the authority of Ibn 'Umar: and this is the shooting of the debil; no-one will forget when he does this. And Humaidi raised his finger. Humaidi also said that Muslim bin Abi Maryam said: " A man related to me that in a church in Syria, he saw imagens of Prophets depicted like this" and Humaidi raised his finger. This is an extremely strange remark, but is sanad up to " the man" is saheeh.
SOURCE: The Prophets prayer by Shaikh Al Albani (Rahimahu Allah)
