Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 170
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Tafsir
(And as for those who make (men) keep the Scripture) those who act upon the Scripture, declaring its lawful to be lawful and its unlawful to be unlawful, and further manifest the traits and description of Muhammad (pbuh) (and establish worship) and perform the five daily prayers (lo! We squander not) We thwart not (the wages of reformers) the reward of those who do good in their works and speech, referring here to 'Abdullah Ibn Salam and his companions.
Related Hadiths
He who does not recite Fatihat al-Kitab is not credited with having observed the prayer.
"Whoever performs wudu' and does it well, then sets out for the Masjid and finds that the people have already prayed, Allah will decree for him a reward like that of those who attended (the prayer), ...
He who does not recite Umm al-Qur'an is not credited with having observed prayer.
“Every prayer in which Fatihatil-Kitab (the Opening of the Book) is not recited, it is deficient, it is deficient.”
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And those who adhere read yumassikūn or yumsikūn to the Scripture from among them and have established prayer the likes of ‘Abd Allāh b. Salām and his companions verily We shall not let the wages of reformers go to waste innā lā nudī‘u ajra l-muslihīn the sentence is the predicate of alladhīna ‘those who’; also there is here the replacing of the third person pronominalisation alladhīna ‘those who’ with an overt noun al-muslihīna ‘reformers’ in other words their wages.