{"id":31905,"date":"2019-03-26T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/what-is-the-least-number-of-rakahs-for-witr-prayer\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:20:53","slug":"what-is-the-least-number-of-rakahs-for-witr-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/what-is-the-least-number-of-rakahs-for-witr-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Least Number of Rak`ahs for Witr Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Witr<\/em> prayer is one of the greatest acts of worship that draw one closer to Allah. It is the best prayer after the five obligatory prayers. It is a highly recommended Sunnah that a Muslim should observe regularly and not neglect. It was narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;If anyone oversleeps and misses the <em>witr<\/em>, or forgets it, he should pray when he remembers.&#8221; (Authenticated by Al-Albani)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The majority of the scholars, including the Maliki, Shafi`i, Hanbali schools, are of the view that the minimum number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/order-quran-surahs-each-rakah\/\"><em>rak`ahs<\/em><\/a> for witr is one <em>rak`ah<\/em>, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/prophet-muhammad\/prophet-manners\/\">the Prophet<\/a> (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;Witr is one rak`ah at the end of the night.&#8221; (Muslim)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another hadith, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;The night prayers are two (<em>rak`ahs<\/em>) by two, but if one of you fears that dawn is about to break, let him pray one rak\u2019ah to make what he has prayed odd-numbered.&#8221; (Agreed Upon)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For more information about the rulings of offering the witr prayer, you could watch this short talk with Dr. Muhammad Salah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-MjnhXBL9xs\" width=\"620\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of offering the witr prayer in Islam? What is the least number of rakahs for Witr Prayer? Watch to get the answer with Dr. Muhammad Salah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[6999,9979,18683,7,1632,14832,1732,17908,687,8372,4323,19961,1005,4623,4625,238,1661,19396,19175,8653,2917,19146,19400],"class_list":["post-31905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer-in-islam-2","tag-ask-about-prayer","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-fatwas-of-salah","tag-featured","tag-guide-to-prayer","tag-how-to-make-salah","tag-how-to-pray","tag-how-to-pray-witr","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-namaz","tag-night-prayer","tag-number-of-rakahs-of-witr","tag-prayer","tag-qunut","tag-ruling-of-witr","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-virtues-of-witr","tag-when-to-pray-witr","tag-witr","tag-witr-prayer","tag-witr-salah","tag-witr-salat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/witr.jpeg?fit=1600%2C1009&ssl=1","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/witr.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}