Collecting money for the mosque after the prayer before the du'a

Question

Please set out, with references, the position of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a and the senior scholars of Deoband regarding “the adhkar after the prayer before the sunnas” (adhkar ba'd al-salat qabl al-sunan). Here, after the Jumu'a prayer and before the du'a, money is collected from the worshippers for the mosque, which takes four or five minutes. Is there room for this according to Hanafi fiqh? Please write with proofs.

Answer

[ar]ويكره تأخير السنة إلا بقدر «اللهم أنت السلام»، قال الحلواني: لا بأس بالفصل بالأوراد، واختاره الكمال، قال الحلبي: إن أريد بالكراهة التنزيهية ارتفع الخلاف، قلت: وفي حفظي حمله على القليلة[/ar] “It is makruh to delay the sunna except by the measure of ‘Allahumma anta al-salam…’. Al-Hulwani said: ‘There is no harm in separating [the fard and the sunna] with litanies (awrad)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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