Rakah
A rakah is one complete unit of salah, the ritual prayer — a cycle of standing, bowing, and two prostrations, with set recitation. Each of the five daily prayers has a fixed number of rakahs. The plural is rakaat.
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Is it permissible for someone who missed the Ishā’ prayer and joined the Imam in the Witr prayer to pray with him and supplicate, then stand up after the Imam’s Taslīm to pray three Rakahs? And is the Rakah he prayed with the Imam considered Witr or part of Ishā’? What is the correct course of action in such a situation?
The 'Isha prayer behind an Imam leading the Tarawih or Witr prayer is valid, according to Imam Al-Shafi'i and Ibn Al-Mundhir. They based their argument on the fact that Mu'adh ibn Jabal used to pray with the Prophet,…
Is it permissible to make up the Qiyam al-Layl prayer for one who woke up late and prayed the Witr (odd) rakah, and then dawn broke, given that he used to regularly pray eleven rakahs every night?
The minimum for Witr is one rak'ah, and the minimum for its perfection is three rak'ahs. Whoever misses Qiyam al-Layl due to sleep is legislated to make it up after the permissibility of the supererogatory prayer until…
Is every prayer after Ishā’ considered a part of Qiyām al-Layl, and is it better to pray two rakahs after Ishā’ and then Witr after Qiyām al-Layl in the last third of the night, or is praying four rakahs after Ishā’ considered a part of Qiyām al-Layl or not?
Not every prayer after Isha is considered part of Qiyam al-Layl (night prayer). The regular Sunnah prayer after Isha is not counted as such, and it is not permissible to combine the intention for both. It is best to…
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Is it permissible to complete a Sunnah prayer after Isha' and to recite aloud in the second rakah when a latecomer joins?
Is it better for the worshipper, after the Isha Sunnah prayer, to intend Witr for all the rakahs, or to intend Tahajjud/Qiyam al-Layl for some of them and Witr for others?
Is the order followed in performing the Isha prayer, the Qiyam (night prayer), and the Isha Sunnah (supererogatory prayer) correct, given that I intended to pray Isha behind an Imam who was performing Qiyam, then I completed Isha individually, then I caught up with the Imam for two Rakahs of Qiyam, then I completed what I missed of Qiyam individually, then I prayed the Isha Sunnah?