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525. Narrated Shaqīq that he had heard Hudhaifa saying, "Once we were sitting with 'Umar رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ and he said, 'Who amongst you remembers the statement of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ about the Al-Fitnah (trial and affliction)?' I said, 'I know it as the Prophet ﷺ had said it.' 'Umar said, 'No doubt you are bold.' I said, 'The Al-Fitnah caused for a man a) Every Muslim, male or female, is obliged to offer his Salāt (prayers) regularly five times a day at the specified times; the male in a mosque in congregation and the female at home. As the Prophet ﷺ has said: "Order your children for Salāt (prayers) at the age of seven and beat them (about it) at the age of ten." The chief (of a family, town, tribe, etc.) and the Muslim ruler of a country are held responsible before Allāh in case of non-fulfilment of this obligation by the Muslims under his authority. b) To offer the Salāt (prayers) as the Prophet ﷺ used to offer them with all their rules and regulations. i.e. standing, bowing, prostrating, sitting as he ﷺ said: "Offer your Salāt (prayers) the way you see me performing them (See Hadīth No.631.)" For the characteristics of the prayer of the Prophet ﷺ see Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī, Vol.1, Aḥādīth Nos. 735,736,739,756,823,824 and 825. by his wife, money, children and neighbour is expiated by his As-Salāt (the prayers), As-Saum (the fasts), charity and by enjoining Al-Ma'rūf (Islāmic Monotheism and all that Allāh has ordained) and forbidding Al-Munkar (disbelief, polytheism, and all that Allāh has forbidden).’ Umar said, ‘I did not mean that but I asked about that Al-Fitnah which will spread like the waves of the sea.’ I (Hudhaifa) said, ‘O leader of the faithful believers! You need not be afraid of it as there is a closed door between you and it.’ Umar asked, ‘Will the door be broken or opened?’ I replied, ‘It will be broken.’ Umar said, ‘Then it will never be closed again.’” I was asked whether Umar knew that door. I replied that he knew it as one knows that there will be night before the tomorrow morning. I have narrated a Hadīth that is free from any mis-statement.” The subnarrator added that they deputed Masrūq to ask Hudhaifa (about the door). Hudhaifa said, “The door was Umar himself.”