{"id":1175,"date":"2011-08-19T18:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkah.mryusuf.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-06-17T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:30:41","slug":"taymiyyah-night-prayers-ramadhan-11-20-rakahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/taymiyyah-night-prayers-ramadhan-11-20-rakahs.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ibn Taymiyyah on Night Prayers in Ramadhan – 11 or 20 Rak’ahs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah<\/strong> (may Allaah have Mercy on him) said:<\/p>\n

“…The night prayers of Ramadhan have not been limited to a specific number\u00a0(of rak’ahs).\u00a0\u00a0He (the Prophet) himself (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him\u00a0peace) used to pray no more than 13 rak’ahs in\u00a0Ramadhan or any\u00a0other time.\u00a0 However, he\u00a0used to\u00a0pray with long rak’ahs.<\/p>\n

When ‘Umar gathered the people behind Ubayy ibn Ka’b, he (Ubayy)\u00a0used to pray 20 rak’ahs with them, and then pray three rak’ahs of witr.\u00a0 He used to recite less in\u00a0the rak’ahs to compensate for the increased number, since that was easier for the believers than long rak’ahs.<\/p>\n

After that, some\u00a0of the Salaf used to pray 40 rak’ahs, adding\u00a0three for witr.<\/p>\n

Others prayed 36 rak’ahs, adding three for witr.<\/p>\n

All of this\u00a0was acceptable.\u00a0\u00a0Whichever of these ways a person chooses to pray in Ramadhan is fine.<\/p>\n

The best\u00a0scenario differs depending on the people’s situations.\u00a0 If they can stand for\u00a0a long time, then\u00a0ten rak’ahs with three for witr is best, as it was the\u00a0steady practice of the Prophet (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) in Ramadhan and\u00a0other times.<\/p>\n

If the people can not stand for long periods of time, then 20 rak’ahs is better.\u00a0 This is what most of the\u00a0Muslims\u00a0do, since it is a middle ground between\u00a0ten and 40.\u00a0 It is permissible for\u00a0someone to pray 40 or some other number\u00a0(of rak’ahs), and there is nothing disliked about that.\u00a0 This has\u00a0been mentioned explicitly by a number of imaams, like Ahmad for example.<\/p>\n

Anyone who\u00a0assumes that the\u00a0night prayers of Ramadhan have been limited by the Prophet (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) to a set\u00a0number that must be adhered to without any increase or decrease has surely erred…”<\/p>\n

[And Allaah knows best.]<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> His Fataawee (22\/272) <\/em>[PDF]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allaah have Mercy on him) said: “…The night prayers of Ramadhan have not been limited to a specific number\u00a0(of rak’ahs).\u00a0\u00a0He (the Prophet) himself (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him\u00a0peace) used to pray no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,85,88,59],"tags":[97,98,99],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fasting","category-fiqh-islamic-rulings","category-prayer","category-translations","tag-11-or-20","tag-ibn-taymiyyah","tag-night-prayers-in-ramadhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}