What are the Maliki legal rulings for calculating the time of the 'Isha prayer, which is determined by the disappearance of the red twilight, and is it permissible to rely on the sun's descent 12 degrees below the horizon for this?
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The time for the 'Isha prayer begins with the disappearance of the red twilight, which is the fading of the redness remaining from the sun's rays. This is what is well-known in the and is held by the majority of scholars.
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