Arabic → English transcript

But we must be careful to know that the sitting between the two prostrations is not a place for unrestricted supplication.

It is not a place for unrestricted supplication; rather it is a tawqifi place, in which one supplicates only with what is transmitted in the texts.

Pay attention to this issue. This is an important matter.

Unrestricted supplication occurs only in three places, and some say in two.

In prostration and before the salaam.

The third place, which we may mention later, is during the qunut.

For example, if one says, “My Lord, forgive me and my parents,” our jurists have judged that this is not permissible.

The addition “for my parents” is not permissible here.

Because this place is a place of tawqifi supplication, and one calls only what is found in the text.

This is not a place for unrestricted supplication.

The second point is that the additions to “My Lord, forgive me” that the compiler cited are:

“Have mercy on me, guide me, provide for me, restore me, and grant me well-being.”

Some of these phrases appear in a hadith of Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him.

Ahmad hinted at its weakness, because he said the hadith of al-Qadhifa is more authentic than the hadith of Ibn Abbas.

And based on that, the scholars said that the addition — the five phrases or the other four

It is permissible and not a sunnah. Rather, it is simply permissible.

It means it is valid and you will be rewarded for it, but the sunnah is to say, "My Lord, forgive me."

Adding to it is fine — you will earn reward, but we do not call it a sunnah.

Because the hadith is equivocal, as I mentioned to you regarding the evidence for it.