al-Luma fi Tahqiq al-Raka li Idrak al-Jumua
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- 911 AH
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al-Luma fi Tahqiq al-Raka li Idrak al-Jumua (The Flash of Light Regarding the Verification of the Rakʿah for Catching the Friday Prayer) is a legal treatise on Shafiʿi jurisprudence by al-Jalal al-Suyuti (d. 911 AH / 1505 CE) .
Subject and Content
The treatise belongs to al-Suyuti's dedicated legal monographs on specific discrete rulings (al-ajzāʾ al-mufradah fī masāʾil makhṣūṣah) . It investigates a fine legal question concerning the Friday congregational prayer (ṣalāt al-jumuʿah), specifically centering on the rule formulated in al-Nawawi's Minhaj al-Talibin: that a latecomer who catches the bowing (rukūʿ) of the second unit (rakʿah) with the imam has successfully caught the Friday prayer and must complete an additional rakʿah after the imam's concluding salutation (salām) .
The inquiry addresses what an adherent of the Shafiʿi school should rely upon regarding whether catching the Friday prayer strictly requires remaining with the imam until he performs the final salām—as maintained by scholars such as Taqi al-Din al-Subki—or whether it is valid for the follower to intend separation (mufāraqah) from the imam after completing the second prostration (sujūd) prior to the imam's salām, an opinion issued by a group of Shafiʿi jurists .
Transmission and Editions
The treatise is recorded under this title in bibliographic works including Hajji Khalifa's Kashf al-Zunun and Isma'il Pasha al-Babani's Hadiyyat al-Arifin . It is also preserved within al-Suyuti's collection of fatwas, al-Hawi lil-Fatawi, where the title appears with the variant phrasing al-Lumʿah fī Taḥrīr al-Rakʿah li-Idrāk al-Jumuʿah . A modern critical edition was edited by Muhammad Basyuni Zaghlul and published by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya in Beirut in 1405 AH .
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