{"id":7372,"date":"2025-11-18T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2025-11-18T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:38:00","slug":"reciting-short-surahs-after-al-fatihah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=7372","title":{"rendered":"Reciting Other Surahs after Al-Fatihah in the 3rd and 4th Rakahs: Permissible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #800000;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Reciting Other Surahs After Al-Fatihah in the 3rd and 4th Rakahs<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #0000ff\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">What is the ruling of reciting other\u00a0<em>Surahs<\/em>\u00a0or verses from the Quran after Surat<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/about-the-quran\/al-fatihah-summary-quran\/\"> Al-Fatihah<\/a> in the third &amp; fourth<em> rakah<\/em> during an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/3\">obligatory Prayer<\/a>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #0000ff\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated on the authority of his father that the\u00a0Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) would recite in the first two<em> rak`ahs<\/em> of the Zuhr (noon Prayer) and `Asr (Afternoon prayer) the opening chapter of the Book (Al-Fatihah) and another surah. He would sometimes recite loud enough to make it audible to us and would recite in the last two <em>rak`ahs<\/em> Surat Al-Faitihah (only).&#8221; (Muslim)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">It was also narrated that Jabir ibn `Abdullah said: &#8220;We used to recite the Opening of the Book (Surah Al-Fatihah) and a Surah behind the Imam in the first two <em>rak`ahs<\/em> of the Zhuhr and the `Asr prayers, and in the last two rak`ah (we would recite) the Opening of the Book (Surah Al-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/reciting-surat-al-fatihah-prayer-must\/\">Fatiha<\/a>).&#8221; (Ibn Majah)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">There is a consensus among the jurists that it is not recommendable to recite a Surah or short verses from the Quran after the third and fourth raka`ahs during the obligatory prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Watch this short talk to know more about this ruling with Dr. Muhammad Salah.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/reciting-short-surahs-after-al-fatihah\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of reciting short verses or surahs after Al-Fatihah in the 3rd and 4th Rakahs during the obligatory prayer? Watch this video!<\/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-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372","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=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}