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Praying twenty rak'ahs for the taraaweeh prayer
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Question: Is the one who prays twenty rak'ahs for the taraaweeh prayer considered to have opposed the Sunnah?
Response: If we pray twenty rak'ahs for the taraaweeh prayer then we are considered to have opposed the Sunnah, that is because we know the Sunnah (is not so). As for the one who thinks the (taraaweeh) prayer is twenty rak'ahs, then we say to him you have opposed the Sunnah.
Shaykh al-Albaanee
al-Haawee min Fataawa ash-Shaykh al-Albaanee ? Page 278
quote:
"The ANGELS are the guadians of the heavens & the PEOPLE OF HADEETH are the guardians of the Earth " - Imaam Sufyan Ath Thawree (d 161 H) . Tahdheeb Sharaf Ashaabul hadeeth
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