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Mawāqīt al-Ṣalāh (The Appointed Times)

Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Legal Theory)Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah

The five prescribed time-windows that individuate the prayers and condition their validity.

Dimension I

Definition

What it is — and what it is not

What it is
  • S1In the Sacred Law — Five appointed time-windows: Fajr, Ẓuhr, ʿAṣr, Maghrib, and ʿIshāʾ. [1.1]
Wisdoms
  • S2Distributing the prayers across the day keeps the remembrance of God continuous.
Necessary conditions
  1. S3Why it matters — Entry of the time is a condition of validity; a prayer before its time does not count.

Dimension II

In practice

How to deal with it

No practical guidance recorded yet.

References

  1. Muslim, al-Ṣaḥīḥ, Kitāb al-Masājid wa Mawāḍiʿ al-Ṣalāh.

    • 1.1

      Ḥadīth of the times — Jibrīl led the Prophet at the beginning and end of each window, demarcating the start and end of every prayerʼs time.

      Established
    • 1.2

      Q 17:78 — The Qurʾānic phrase "at the decline of the sun until the darkness of the night" frames the same windows in the primary text.

      Corroboratedweaker than the source overall (Established)
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