4 Sunnah Rakah before Thuhr

[abdulrahman114]

Assalaamu alaykum,

How are the 4 sunnah rakat before the 4 fard Thuhr supposed to be done? I've read 2 and 2, but are they both like the 2 for Fajr? Do you leave out the second surah of recitation on the final two? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Abdur-Rahman

 

[ummAbdillah]

Post approved.

 

[UmmSqueakster]

wa alaikum assalam,

To the best of my knowledge, it is either 2 by 2, like 2 fajrs in a row, or 4 total, like zuhr itself, depending on what opinion you hold to.

http://www.islamtoday.net/english/showme2.cfm?cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=540

Our Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever prays twelve units of prayer voluntarily in a day and night Allah will build him a house in Paradise" [Related by Muslim]. Al-Tirmidhî relates the same hadîth with a good chain of narrators, wherein these twelve units are enumerated as follows:

There are two Sunnah units before the Fajr prayer (sunnah mu`akkadah).

There are four Sunnah units before the Zuhr prayer (preferably performed as two separate prayers of two units each) and two Sunnah rakahs after it.

There are two Sunnah unit's after the Maghrib prayer.

There are two Sunnah unit's after the `Ishâ' prayer.

[refer to: Sunan al-Tirmidhî (380)]

There are four Sunnah units before Zuhr prayer (performed as a single prayer of four units) and two afterwards. The Hanafî scholars also recommend the performance of two voluntary (nafl) prayers after these Sunnah prayers.

 

[abdulrahman114]

Assalaamu alaykum,

Thanks Sister Janaan. That helped me out a lot.

Wassalaam,

Abdur-Rahman

 

[chacha_jalebi]

its basically like 4 4 2

4 rakahs - sunnah

4 rakahs - fardh

2 rakahs - sunnah/nafl