How many Taraweeh do we have to pray?

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Does it have to 20 or could we do less?

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We can pray 8 aswell, thts wht i heard !

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Taraweeh

Thats the time of the year when overwhelming majority of Pakistanis become Wahabis instantly. The staunchest of Hanafis at Taraweeh leave the mosque as soon as 8 are completed. And then its the Imam, the moazzin and 2-3 old people of teh neighbourhood.

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:chai: you have to read 20 any thing less dont even bother

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As far as i kno, itz that u cud read 20 or 8

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I confirmed it from a scholar that it is only 20. The concept of 8 is self made by people. (we might call it bidah)

Btw it is up to you how much you want to offer. According to the same well known scholar it is mentioned in a hadith that you get 7000000 sawab for every sajda of taraweeh.

Would we shift from 20 to 8 minutes of work if we get 7000000 Dollars for every single minute of work ?

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Ahalay Sunnah Offer 20 rakhats ! it is not a wahabis practice.

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First and the foremost let me take you all through a series of events leading to the taraweeh prayer

Accordign to the sources Ayesha said that Prophet performed only 8 rakah of taraweeh and 3 witr i.e. a total of 11

Umar ra during his reign made it compulsory by making it 20 rakah in congregation and also made a point to recite so many verses in one day so as to see to taht the Quran could be recited twice in one ramadan.

Ali ra complimented Umar ra for this purpose.

Abu Hanifa made a point that 20 rakah should be prayed and the hikmah again was 20 verses in each rakah 200 each day and odd and since Quran contains 6000 verses and odd thats makes it to recite Quran once per ramadan

Malikis offer upto 36 rakah and there is no denial in it.

But let us see what Prophet had to comment its completely wrong to say taht only 20 is allowed/8 is allowed/36 is allowed and calling it bidah.

Firstly we have to understand Taraweeh is a prayer which is a sunnah and during the day of Judgement Allaah wont Question us regarding this but yes our deeds/points will increase if we perform Taraweeh in this blessed month.

Second Prophet has told us perfomr the prayers esp Qiyaam al layl/taraweh in units of two i.e. 2 rakah each so its left upto an individual to perform how many every prayers s/he wants to and understand there is no upper limit to this you can pray how much ever you want.

Accordign to me no individual in this regard has right to comment on any individual when Prophet has decreed no matter come what may.

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I agree with ya bruv SOA and I comprehend that Taraweeh is a Sunnah prayer. Sunnat.ay Mokada or Gair mokada , it is again another debate . But in a nutshell it is not Farz .

But as one of our fellow posters said that Staunchest of Hanafis at Taraweeh leave the mosque as soon as 8 are completed.

I was just commenting on it that So far I haven’t come across any Hanfi doing this .

And if some one leaves tarweeh in middle (Hanfi , shahfa.e , Hanbali ) , like after offering 8 rakhats only where imam and rest of namazis are intended to offer 20 or 36 rakhats . Although no harm done , no sin committed , he is allowed to leave the mosque but in my humble opnion if once you are intended to listen quran during tarweeh , you should follow the imam , If he is offering 8, 20 or 36 , please go for same.

As if I offer tarweeh behind a maliki imam I would go for whole 36 rakhats and if Hanfi , then 20 like him and rest . Therefore if one stands behind a imam who offers 20 rakhats Tarwahee a day ,he should stand for whole 20. You are allowed to leave after 4, 8 , 12 , 16 , will get reward for the prayers you offered but on same hand you are missing some quran if you do so and it kills the basic intention of offering taraweeh.

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As this and many other problems also called "MASAAIL" in terminology should be asked from authenticated Scholar (AALIM) or MUFTI and as I heard these are twenty and not 8 or any else

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u can skip it altogether and u wont be sinning....
pray 2 or 4 or 6 or 10 or 20, as long as u pray from heart, its good and if u r just giong thru the motions to complete the number u r just wasting ur time....

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Salam aliyish,

Now this what i like it and it also is compatible to a hadith pray the Qiyam al layl with the imam that is from first to last and Prophet mentioned its as if praying the whole of night.

So what you said is right. Regarding of most of the hanifis tahts true i see it in india also 8 rakah and udhan choo but thats left to an individual, no harm

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Do we have to pray 4 Fardh of Isha before offering 8 or 20 rakah of sunnat-e-mo'akkadah of taraaveeh?

Actually, do we have to offer other 4 compulsory faraaidh salaah?

More importantly, should we continue praying the 5 daily salaah for the rest of our life?

Jazak Allah khair for replying.

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Salam AQ,

Well you know Fardh is something which Allaah has ordained and Allaah will question you if you miss the Fardh but with sunnah its not neccessary.

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^brothers' questions were rhetoric.
Tarweeh salah is sunnah so i don't think it really matters hw many do you pray but if you're praying behind imam then, as someone said already, it would be better to stay till imam finishes but there no harm on you if you leave before. I don't think we should get into these kinds of debates when we got bigger things to worry about (e.g. dawah, unity).

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^ brother there is no harm in asking a question and clarifying one's misconceptions. So, no harm done, in fact this issue may have helped countless others. :)

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well in our maskid, we get qaris from al azhar university to lead the taravih prayer (Subhanallah their qirat is beautiful and their tajweed is perrrrrrrrrrrrrfect).

Anyways, since ours is more a family based mosque where A LOT OF WOMEN AND KIDS attend, there are only 8 rakats offered 4 taravih... and the surahs aren't so long so its easy for ppl to afford the time to come. So there is no chance anyone leaving half way through, ppl do leave b4 the witr though (probably coz they wanna pray it with tahajjut)....and i would say the best part is the witr where they raise their hands and do dua...

there are other masjids that offer 20 rakats so those who wanna do that can go there.

This is not an issue to be disputing over... Muhammad SAW never said pray 20 rakat of taravih.... so one isn't doing anything wrong if u dont.

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sister there's in no tahajjut in Ramdan. In Ramdan the tarweeh salah replaces tahajjut, however, there is qiyam. Yep, i also like raising the hands during witr, it is better than staying quite.

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^isn't there? I make an effort to wake up like 15 minutes b4 normal sehri time to offer tahajjut prayer... am i doing something wrong, plz let me know. Is the tahajjut prayer nullified bcoz of qiyam ul layl? I really cant stay up all night :( afsoos!

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This is a sheer misstatement.