{"id":1809,"date":"2025-09-26T04:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:43:52","slug":"what-is-the-ruling-of-forgetting-the-number-of-rakahs-while-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Ruling of Forgetting the Number of Rak`ahs while Praying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #333399\"><strong>Forgetting the Number of <em>Rak`ahs<\/em> while Praying<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Question:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">What is the ruling of forgetting the number of <em>rak`ahs<\/em> (unit of prayer) while making <em>sujud<\/em> (prostration) in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/\">prayer<\/a>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/abcs-of-islam\/the-meaning-of-tawheed-the-oneness-of-allah\/\">Allah<\/a>, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">First of all, you have to know that forgetting the number of <em>rak`ahs<\/em> that you have prayed does not invalidate your prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Rather, if you forget how many <em>rak`ahs<\/em> you have prayed, you go on the assumption that you have prayed the least number that you are certain of. For example, if I am unsure whether I have prayed two or three<em> rak`ahs<\/em>, then I assume that I have only prayed two and then complete my prayer based on that assumption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">At the end of prayer and before making <em>tasleem<\/em>, it is recommended (but not obligatory) to perform two prostrations of forgetfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">To know more about the ruling of forgetting the number of <em>rak`ahs<\/em> while offering prayer, watch this interesting talk with Dr. Muhammad Salah.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/what-is-the-ruling-of-forgetting-the-number-of-rakahs-while-praying\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of forgetting the number of rak`ahs (unit of prayer) while making sujud (prostration) in my prayer?\u00a0Watch this video to get the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1919,1920,9,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1805,1926,1877,1824,1927,374,1052,1575,467,1878,1852,1576,1577,472,1928,1881],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-doubt-while-praying","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-featured","tag-forget-the-number-of-rakat","tag-forgetfulness-during-prayer","tag-forgetting-in-prayer","tag-forgetting-in-salat","tag-forgetting-the-number-of-rakahs","tag-guide-to-prayer","tag-how-to-make-prayer","tag-how-to-make-sujud-sahw","tag-huda-channel","tag-missing-a-rakah-or-adding-a-rakah","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prostration","tag-prostration-of-forgetfulness","tag-rulings-of-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-sujud","tag-sujud-as-sahw","tag-sujud-sahw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/What-Is-The-Ruling-Of-Forgetting-The-Number-of-Rakahs-While-Praying.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}