The Book on Salat (Prayer)

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Chapter 198: What Has Been Related About 'There Is No Salat After Fajr Begins Except For Two Rak'ah'

Ibn Umar narrated that

Allah's Messenger (S) said: "There is no Salat after Al-Fajr (begins) except two prostrations."

Chapter 202: What Has Been Related About Waiting To Perform Them After The Sun Has Risen

Abu Hurairah narrated that

Allah's Messenger (S) said: "Whoever did not pray the two Rak'ah (before) Fajr then let him pray them after the sun has risen."

Chapter 205: Something Else About That

Aishah narrated

"When the Prophet (S) would not perform the four Rak'ah before Az-Zuhr he would pray them after it."

Umm Habibah the wife of the Prophet (S) narrated that

She heard Allah's Messenger (S) saying: "Whoever maintains four Rak'ah before Az-Zuhr and four after it, Allah makes him prohibited for the Fire."

Chapter 206: What Has Been Related About The Four (Rak'ah) Before Asr

Ibn Umar narrated that

The Prophet (S) said: "May Allah have mercy upon a man who prays four before Al-Asr."

Chapter 207: What Has Been Related About The Two Rak'ah After Al-Maghrib And The Recitation In Them

Abdullah bin Mas'ud narrated

"I can not enumerate (how many times) I heard Allah's Messenger (S) reciting - in the two Rak'ah after Al-Maghrib and the two Rak'ah before Salatul-Fajr with: Say: "O you disbelievers!" and Say: "He is Allah the One."

Chapter 208: What Has Been Related About Him (S) Praying Them In The House

Ibn Umar narrated

"I memorized ten Rak'ah from Allah's Messenger (S) which he would pray in a night and a day: Two Rak'ah before Az-Zuhr, two after it; two Rak'ah after Al-Maghrib and two Rak'ah after the latter Isha." He said: "And Hafsah narrated to me that he (S) would pray two Rak'ah before Al-Fajr."

Chapter 212: What Has Been Related About The Virtue Of Salat During The Night

Abu Hurairah narrated that

Allah's Messenger (S) said: "The most virtuous fasting after the month of Ramadan is that of Allah's month of Al-Muharram. And the most virtuous Salat after the obligatory is the night prayer."

Chapter 179: Regarding One Who Has Doubts Over Addition Or A Omission

Iyad bin Hilal said

"I said to Abu Sa'eed: 'One of us performs Salat and we do not know how (much) we prayed.' So he said: 'Allah's Messenger (S) said: "When one of you performs Salat and he does now know how (much) he prayed then let him perform two prostrations while he is sitting."

Chapter 181: What Has Been Related About Salat In Sandals

Sa'eed bin Yazid Abu Maslamah said

"I said to Anas bin Malik: 'Would Allah's Messenger (S) perform Salat wearing his sandals?' He said: 'Yes.'"

Chapter 182: What Has Been Related About The Qunut In The Fajr Prayer

Al-Bara bin Azib narrated

"The Prophet (S) would perform the Qunut in the Subh and Maghrib prayers."

Chapter 183: [What Has Been Related] About Not Performing The Qunut

There is another narration from Abu Malik

There exists another narration from Abu Malik with similar meaning but with different chain.

Chapter 189: What Has Been Related About 'When It Rains Then Salat Is Performed At One's Place'

Jabir narrated

"We were with the Prophet (S) on a journey when it started to rain on us, so the Prophet (S) said: 'Whoever wishes, let him perform Salat in his place.'"

Chapter 194: What Has Been Related About One Who Prays Twelve Rak'ah Of Sunnah In A and Night, And What Virtues He Will Have For That

Umm Habibah narrated that Allah's Messenger (S) sad

"Whoever prays twelve Rak'ah in a day and night, a house will be built from him in Paradise: Four Rak'ah before Zuhr, two Rak'ah after it, two Rak'ah after Maghrib, two Rak'ah after Isha, and two Rak'ah before Fajr in the morning Salat."

Chapter 196: What Has Been Related About The Brevity Of The Two Rak'ah Of Fajr And What The Prophet (S) Would Recite In Them

Ibn Umar narrated

"I watched the Prophet (S) for a month. In the two Rak'ah before Fajr he would recite: Say: "O you disbelievers!" and Say: "Allah is One"."

Chapter 199: What Has Been Related About Lying On One's Side After The Two Rak'ah Of Fajr

Abu Hurairah narrated that

Allah's Messenger (S) said: "When one of you prays the two Rak'ah of Fajr then let him lay down on his right (side)."

Chapter 204: What Has Been Related About The Two Rak'ah After Az-Zuhr

Ibn Umar narrated

"I prayed two Rak'ah with the Prophet (S) before Az-Zuhr and two Rak'ah after it."

Chapter 209: What Has Been Related About The Virtue Of Six Voluntary Rak'ah After Al-Maghrib

Abu Hurairah narrated that

Allah's Messenger (S) said: "Whoever prays six Rak'ah after Al-Maghrib, and he does not speak about anything between them, then they will be counted for him as twelve years of worship."

Chapter 210: What Has Been Related About The Two Rak'ah After Isha

Abdullah bin Shaqiq said

"I asked Aishah about the Salat of Allah's Messenger (S). She said: 'He would pray four Rak'ah before Az-Zuhr and two Rak'ah after it, and two after Al-Maghrib, and two Rak'ah after Al-Isha, and two before Al-Fajr."

Chapter 179: Regarding One Who Has Doubts Over Addition Or A Omission

Abdur-Rahman bi Awf narrated that he heard the Prophet (S) saying

"When one of you becomes forgetful in his Salat so that he does not know if he prayed one or two, then let him consider it one. When he does not know if he prayed three or four, then let him consider it three, and let him perform two prostrations before he says the Taslim."