Sunnah prayer
Sunnah (in mainstream Islam), means the traditional customs and practices that (are believed to) follow the example of Muhammad.
[2] Sohaib Sultan states that the steps for Sunnah prayer (Takbir, al-Fatihah, etc.)
Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha are all names of compulsory prayers.
Reciting al-Faatihah at the beginning of the rakat Examples of sunnah words and actions include: i.
In Saudi Arabia during the fasting month of Ramadan, there are many people who leave the Tarawih prayers in the main masjid in a hurry so that they can go home, go to sleep, and then wake up to perform their Tahajjud prayers in the early morning.
Some say 13 but any number more than 13 is a bidah (Innovation); for there is no hadeeth; that is saheeh (strong) showing that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) Muhammad exceeding more than 13 rakats (according to Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Marwazee)[8] A hadith attributed to Aisha reports:[9]
Tarawih (Arabic: صلاة التراويح) is a sunnah muakada night prayer during Ramadan.
Typically, Muslims gather together and perform tarawih as a group, often amongst extended family members in one large house.
Muhammad was afraid that if he continued to perform the prayers in the mosque, then his followers might come to think that they were compulsory and not optional.
The total number of people joining the tarawih prayers in the main mosque in Mecca may reach 3-4 million.
[citation needed] It is also customary for the Imam in any mosque to recite the entire contents of the Qur'an during the fasting month by reading approximately one section per day.
Salat ul istasqa (Arabic: صلاة الإستسقاء) is a prayer to ask Allah for rain.
According to Ibn Qudaamah said: "Prayer for rain is a confirmed Sunnah, proven by the practice of the Messenger of Allah ... and of his successors."
And in the second rakat, he reads Sura Al-Ghashiyah after Al-Fatihah, and he delivers a khutbah before or after the salah.
As soon as he finishes the khutbah (sermon), people face the qiblah (direction of prayer) and supplicate to Allah.
Ash-Shaf'i states that it has been related from Salim ibn 'Abdullah, on the authority of his father that Muhammad would say for ishsqa': "O Allah, give us a saving rain, productive, plentiful, general, continuous.
[13] 'Amr ibn Shuaib relates from his father, on the authority of his grandfather, that for istisqa', Muhammad would say: "O Allah, provide water for Your slaves and Your cattle, display Your mercy and give life to Your dead lands."
They are both Nafl (non-obligatory) with two rakat prayers that should be performed by the Muslim community in congregation.
People hurried to link this to a worldly event, namely, the death of Muhammad's son, Ibrahim.
In his Sahih (authentic hadith), Imam Muslim reported that `A'ishah (rali) said: There was a solar eclipse in the time of the Messenger of Allah.
O Ummah of Muhammad, none is more indignant than Allah when His servant or maid commits fornication.
It was revealed as a permissible substitute of belomancy, which is illegal in Islam, and was common in pre-Islamic Arabia.
