Fixing a time and encouraging blessings on the Prophet after ʿAsr on Friday

Question

Question: Concerning reciting blessings on the Prophet (salawat) aloud after the Friday prayer — and in other neighbourhoods too this is done — concerning reciting salawat, tasbih, tahlil and takbir aloud in a collective form: a decision is set out in the book “al-Minhaj al-Wadih”, that is, “Rah-e Sunnat” (“The Path of the Sunna”), pp. 116–123.

Answer

Blessings on the Prophet (salawat) — both silently and aloud — are correct in both ways, bring reward, are a cause of the raising of ranks and a means of nearness (to Allah). On Friday they are especially urged; however, reciting them aloud in a collective form is not established by the hadiths and fiqh, even though the noble Companions ﵃ gathered in the mosque five times (a…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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