{"id":8775,"date":"2025-12-11T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:37:27","slug":"number-of-rakahs-for-witr-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=8775","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><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><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/number-of-rakahs-for-witr-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/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":8777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1859,1920,4719,9,1805,1841,1569,4113,374,1850,2014,6442,1052,5273,5065,1576,1577,6443,4117,4118,2196,5277,6444],"class_list":["post-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","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:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/witr.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","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=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}