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ASSALAM ALEKUIM WAH REHMATULLAHI WA BARKATAU,

I WANTED TO KNOW?

AFTER NAMAZ WE CAN GREET SALAM TO OUR BELOVED PROPHET (SAWS) PBUH IN THE STANDING MANNER TOWARDS FACING QIBLAH RIGHT HAND SIDE PLEASE LET ME KNOW I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU.

 

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When to offer durood

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzaab verse 56:

Allah and His Angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Send ye blessings on him and salute him with all respect.

 

Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (saws) said, "When any Muslim sends greetings upon me, Allah returns my soul to me so that I may respond to his greetings." (Related by Abu Dawud)

 

Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (saws), "Do not turn my grave into a site of festivities, but send salutations to me for your salutations are raised to me wherever you might be." (Related by Abu Daw'ud)

 

Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-'As reported that he heard the Prophet (saws) saying, "If anyone invokes blessings upon me once, Allah will bestow blessings upon him ten times over."

Related by Muslim.

 

Ibn Masud reported that the Prophet (saws) said, "The people nearest to me on the Day of Judgment will be the ones most conscientious in invoking blessings upon me." Related by Tirmidhi.

 

Abu Hurairah reports that the Prophet (saws) said, "May the nose of the person in whose presence I am mentioned be covered with dirt if he does not invoke blessings upon me.”

Related by Tirmidhi.

 

Abu Dharr al-Ghaffari narrated that the Prophet (saws) said, 'The most miserly amongst people is the one who fails to invoke blessings upon me when my name is mentioned in his or her presence.’

 

Your Question: AFTER NAMAZ WE CAN GREET SALAM TO OUR BELOVED PROPHET (SAWS) PBUH IN THE STANDING MANNER TOWARDS FACING QIBLAH RIGHT HAND SIDE

One may recite the ‘salaams’ or salutations upon the Noble Messenger of Allah (saws) whenever one wills or is easy for them; but to invent or make it a ritual to offer it specifically only after prayers, or in the standing manner, or facing the ‘qibla’, or on the right hand side, etc. would be a manifest innovation, and all such innovations have absolutely no basis, place, weight, or merit in the pure and perfect deen of Islam.

 

One may offer the ‘salaams’ or salutations upon their Prophet (saws) whenever and wherever one wills or is easy for them.

 

Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (saws), "Do not turn my grave into a site of festivities, but send salutations to me for your salutations are raised to me wherever you might be." (Related by Abu Daw'ud)

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan