Is it permissible to perform the last sunnahs of the noon and night prayers as four rak’ahs?
Is it permissible to perform the last sunnahs of the noon and night prayers as four rak’ahs?
Submitted by on Tue, 17/04/2018 - 10:11
Dear Brother / Sister,
The last sunnah of two rak’ahs of the noon prayer:
It is performed just like the sunnah of the morning prayer by making niyyah as follows: "I intend to perform the last sunnah of today’s noon prayer." It is mustahab to perform this last sunnah as four rak'ahs. In that case, it is possible to salute after every two rak'ahs or at the end of the fourth rak'ah. The supplication "Rabbana atina" is not read in the first sitting if one performs it as four rak'ahs. When one stands up by uttering takbir for the third rak'ah, he reads "Subhanaka". After that, he performs the last two rak’ahs like the first two rak’ahs.
The last sunnah of the night prayer can also be performed as four rak’ahs. In that case, it is performed just like the first four rak’ahs. It can also be performed by saluting after every two rak'ahs. In that case,"at-Tahiyyat and Salawat" and the supplication "Rabbana atina" are read in the sittings of both prayers.
It is more virtuous to salute after every two rak'ahs in the nafilah prayers that are performed at night. There are narrations showing that those Sunnah prayers can be performed as four rak'ahs. Therefore, it is regarded mustahab. (Zaylai, Nasbur-Raya, II/145 ff.; Shawkani, Naylul-Awtar, III/18; Marak al-Falah, 64)
Questions on Islam
- Are the last sunnahs of the noon, evening and night prayers, which are sunnah muakkadah, be performed as four rak’ahs? Is there a hadith about it?
- Is it permissible to perform the sunnah prayers of the afternoon and night prayers as two rak’ahs?
- Are there any prayers that the Prophet (pbuh) performed after the morning prayer (fajr)? Is it permissible for a person who starts to perform awwabin prayer as four rak’ahs to perform it as two rak’ahs?
- It is said that the Prophet (pbuh) prayed only eight rak’ahs of tarawih. Why do we pray twenty rak’ahs?
- Did the Prophet perform tarawih prayer as eight rak’ahs?
- What is the decree on performing nafilah prayers by sitting? Does a person who follows a musafir imam need to read al-Fatiha in the third and fourth rak’ahs?
- Will you list the supplications (duas) that are read in prayer (salah)?
- Is it permissible to shorten the first sunnahs of four rak’ahs as two rak’ahs in order to catch up with the congregation?
- Will you please give information about the prayers of "Rabbana,..", which we recite in the last sitting of prayer (salah), and their meanings?
- Evening Salah