When did the Prophet (pbuh) perform the first prayer?
Dear Brother / Sister,
The first fard prayer that Hz. Prophet (pbuh) performed after Miraj is the noon prayer. (Naylu’l-Awtar, 1/300). There are different views whether the morning and evening prayers he performed before it were sunnah or fard.
Mudarris Tahirü’l-Mevlevi reports that Jibril led the morning prayer to the Prophet (pbuh) near the Kaaba on the first day of the prophethood. The Prophet performed the evening prayer together with Hz. Khadijah; Hz. Ali joined them the next day. (see Tahirü’l-Mevlevi (Olgun), Müslümanlıkta İbadet Tarihi, p. 24)
According to some narrations, the first person to perform the morning prayer is Hz. Adam (pbuh). Accordingly, he is the first human being to perform a prayer. The first person to perform the noon prayer is Hz. Dawud (pbuh), the first afternoon prayer Hz. Ibrahim (pbuh), the first evening prayer Hz. Isa (pbuh) and the first night prayer Hz. Yunus (pbuh). These five daily prayers were rendered fard for Hz. Muhammad (pbuh) and his ummah. (see al-Mutadabu’l-Islami)
Questions on Islam
- When did the Prophet (pbuh) perform the first prayer?
- How did Hz. Khadijah become a Muslim?
- The First Muslim: Hazrat Khadija
- Is a missed (qada) prayer performed before the fard prayer of the time and is it performed in order?
- Did the worship of prayer (salah) exist before Miraj (ascension)?
- Will you explain the order of prayer, fasting, zakah and hajj being rendered fard?
- When was prayer rendered fard?
- Will you give information about the arrangement of the deeds of worshipping in terms of wisdom and taabbud?
- Why do we read Salli and Barik supplications in the first sitting of the first sunnah prayers of the afternoon and night prayers?
- Are Salli and Barik prayers recited in the first sitting of the sunnah of the asr (afternoon) prayer?
