{"id":16814,"date":"2026-05-07T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=16814"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:36:57","slug":"how-to-the-4-rakahs-sunnah-before-zhuhr-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=16814","title":{"rendered":"How Can One Offer the 4 Rakahs Sunnah Before Zhuhr Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #ff6600\"><strong>Sunnah Before Zhuhr Prayer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Um Habibah (the wife of the Prophet) narrated that Allah&#8217;s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;A house will be built in Paradise, for anyone who prays in a day and a night twelve rak`ahs&#8221;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/imam-muslim-leading-scholar-hadith\/\">Muslim<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">`A&#8217;ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) never omitted four rak`ahs prayer before the Zhuhr (Noon) prayer and two rak`ahs prayers before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/all-about-fajr-prayer\/\">Dawn (Fajr) prayer<\/a>.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-history\/albukhari-the-imam-of-hadith-and-sunnah\/\">Al-Bukhari<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Each prayer has a sunnah prayer attached to it. We know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/obligatory-prayers-guide-to-prayer\/zhuhr-prayer\/\">Zhuhr<\/a> (Noon) prayer has 4 rak`ahs sunnah prior. How should these 4 <em>rak`ah<\/em>s be performed? Should they be performed all together like Zhuhr prayer? or should they be performed in twos?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">To know the answers and more about the Sunnah (nafl prayer) before Zhuhr Prayer, you can watch this short video with <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Sheikh Waleed Basyouni<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">_____________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><em>Source: Faithiq Youtube Channel.<\/em><\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/how-to-the-4-rakahs-sunnah-before-zhuhr-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could you offer the nafl prayer before Zhuhr prayer? Is it offered with two separate tasleem or only one tasleem? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}