Topic: THE SUNNAH RAK'AHS


Aboo.Ibraaheem    -- 15-12-2007 @ 4:22 PM
  THE REGULAR AND EXTRA SUNNAH RAK'AHS BEFORE AND AFTER THE
OBLIGATORY PRAYERS:

            Before            Obligatory            After

Fajr        2                 2                     0

Zuhr        2 or 4            4                     2 or 4            

`Asr        4 **              4                     (2) *

Maghrib     (2)               3                      2  

`Ishaa.     0 **              4                      2

* see : 'as-Saheehah' (6/2/11013-1014) of Shaikh al-Albaanee- rahimahullaah-,and  he said in 'as-Saheehah' ( 7/1/527) that it is 'A Prayer which has been forgotten, which should be revived.'

** Husayn al-`Awaayishah in his book 'al-Mawsoo`atul-Fiqhiyyatul-Muyassarah' (2/113-114) mentions these as times when two rak`ahs could be prayed based upon the general wording of the hadeeth:

<<Between every two adhaans there is a Prayer...for whoeever wishes.>> [al-Bukhaaree (627), Muslim (838)]

[ References:

(i) 'Bughyatul-Mutatawwi` fee Salaatit-Tatawwu`' of Shaikh Muhammad ibn `Umar Baazmool;

(ii) 'al-Mawsoo`atul-Fiqhiyyatul-Muyassarah' of Shaikh Husayn al-`Awaayishah ]

May Allaah reward our noble brother Aboo Talhah Daawood ibn Ronald Burbank.

Haroon as-Salafi


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