Al maslahah - Public interest (what brings the greatest benefit to the greatest number) is a fundamental principle of Maliki legal tradition, which Nigerian Muslims adopted several centuries ago. This principle allows for the permission of beneficial actions like public health...
...campaigns, as well as the banning of major threats to public interest like intermingling in large gatherings during a plague/epidemic. Such actions are quite the opposite of being anti-Islam. Indeed, they are in fact mandatory in Islamic legal thought. researchgate.net/publication/26…
According to Sahih Al Bukhari’s Book on “Call to Prayer”, as narrated by Abdullah bin Al Harith: “Once on a rainy muddy day, Ibn Abbas delivered a sermon in our presence and when the muezzin pronounced the adhan and said, 'Hayya ala salat (come to the prayer)' Ibn Abbas ordered..
..him to say 'Pray at your homes.' The people began to look at each other (in surprise). Ibn Abbas said. 'It was done by one who was much better than I (i.e. the Prophet and his muezzin), and (therefore) it is a licence.'...
...In another Hadith in Sahih Al Bukhari’s book, Nafi narrated: "Once on a cold night, Ibn 'Umar pronounced the adhan for the prayer at Dajnan (the name of a mountain) and then said: "Pray at your homes", and informed us that Allah's Messenger used to tell the muezzin to...
...pronounce the adhan and say: 'Pray at your homes' at the end of the adhan on a rainy or a very cold night during the journey." The principle of maslahah was used by the Prophet (s.a.w.) to enjoin prayer at home even for rain or cold where people might get sick. How much more..
...for where lives may be lost not just by the worshipper going to the mosque but by his family members and neighbours he may spreading the contagion to. #Sunnah #Maslahah #usululfiqh #qawaidalfiqhiyyah
