Five Daily Prayers
1,577 questions
Is it obligatory to observe the order between prayers, or is it permissible to perform the present obligatory prayer and postpone the missed one? And is it permissible to make up each missed prayer with its corresponding current obligatory prayer? And does the invalidity of a previous prayer affect the validity of subsequent prayers due to the obligation of observing the order?
Is it permissible to pray in sleepwear (pajamas)?
Is covering one's nakedness (awrah) a condition for the adhan?
What is the ruling concerning the prayers I performed—more than one obligatory prayer with a single ablution—after I learned that daily vaginal discharge invalidates ablution and necessitates performing ablution for each prayer, and must I make them up?
Has there been a consensus (Ijma') that the purity of clothes, water, and body is a condition for the validity of prayer (Salah)? If so, what type of consensus is it, is it permissible to oppose it, and what is the ruling on one who opposes it?
Is the prayer of one who slightly raises his head and body after the first prostration, then returns for the second prostration without fully sitting upright, valid? And is sitting upright after the first prostration a condition for the validity of prayer?
Is the story of Al-Ala Al-Hadrami and what he did with his army – as mentioned in "Al-Bidaya wa Al-Nihaya" – authentic, and can it be considered evidence for the permissibility of congregational supplication after prayer?
What is the ruling on praying Jumu'ah behind an Imam who leads people only for Jumu'ah prayer and never prays the five daily prayers in the mosque without an excuse?
What is the ruling on praying in a mosque located in the middle of a graveyard, necessitating passage through graves to reach it?
Is a woman's prayer valid at home if her husband is praying in another room in the same house?
What are the conditions for performing the Qiyam al-Layl prayer? And is it obligatory to sleep before performing it, or is it permissible to perform it by waking up at the time of Sahar and before the last third of the night? And is performing the prayer before sleeping considered to achieve the same reward?
What is the ruling on praying behind an Imam who recites the Qur'an with a congregation in unison and with one voice every Friday after Fajr and Asr prayers, and similarly in Ramadan after every Fajr and Asr prayer?
Are there any statements from scholars who consider valid the prayer of one who prayed intentionally and knowingly with the presence of impurity, and that removing impurity is a Sunnah and not a condition for the validity of prayer?
Is Itikaf restricted to the Two Holy Mosques and the Mosque of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?
Must I repeat prayers that I erroneously prayed facing the wrong Qibla for more than a week, and are prayers whose validity is doubted to be made up for, or are supererogatory prayers sufficient?
Is it permissible to pray behind a husband who leads the prayer sometimes and abandons it at other times?
Does joining the opening Takbir (Allahu Akbar) with human speech before it, or with the Fatiha immediately after it without a pause, invalidate the prayer, knowing that joining the Takbir with the remembrances before or after it does not invalidate the prayer?
Is it permissible to change a specific obligatory prayer into a specific supererogatory prayer with a determined number of rak'ahs, such as changing the intention of the Maghrib prayer of three rak'ahs into a supererogatory prayer of three rak'ahs?
What is incumbent upon a woman who performed all the rituals of Hajj except that she completed some of the last circuits of Tawaf al-Ifadah while in a state of impurity (lacking Wudu'), then prayed two rak'ahs after Tawaf, and has since returned to her country?
Is it permissible to restrict oneself to performing only some of the rak'ahs of the "12 rak'ahs in a day and night" prayer, the virtue of which—building a house in Paradise for whoever performs it completely—has been reported?
What is the ruling on the prayer of someone who caught the last rak'ah of 'Isha prayer behind the Imam, then after the Imam's Taslim, he stood up to complete his prayer and a man made him his Imam, then another person joined them, so that he became an Imam for two who were previously congregants?
Does the emission of pus or blood drops from an anal fistula affect the validity of prayer, and what is the ruling on wearing clothes upon which a drop of that blood has fallen for prayer?
Does prayer become invalid by interrupting it immediately after the opening takbeer – due to doubt about the validity of the takbeer – then performing the takbeer again?
Is it permissible to perform the Night Vigil Prayer (Salat al-Layl) after the Witr prayer and before sleeping, due to the inability to perform it in the last part of the night?