Allaahu Akbar: Does it Replace Bismillah?
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Question:
Some reciters separating between two chapters of the Quraan by saying Allaahu Akbar rather than Bismillah, is this permissible? And is there any proof to prove or to disprove this practice?
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Answer:
The practice you mention is contrary to how the Companions would separate chapters of the Quraan and contrary to what the people of knowledge do. The furthest one may go in this regard is to say that some reciters considered in recommended to say Allaahu Akbar after reading every chapter from Ad-Dhuha to the end of the Quraan, but even then, they recite Bismillah at the beginning of each chapter. The practice you refer to is not Sunnah it is not related from the Prophet sallAllaahu `alayhi wa sallam. What is legislated is to begin every chapter of the Quraan separating one chapter from another with Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim, with the exception being Baraa (i.e. At-Tawbah) since there is no Bismillah between it and Surat Al-Anfal.
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Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
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Fatawa Islamiyah, vol.7 p.81
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