How to pray Salat al-Istighfar to seek forgiveness from Allah? Any web links would be really appreciated.
Re: How to pray Salat al-Istighfar?
I never heard about any 'Salat al-Istighfar'. You may read two rakat nafl and ask forgiveness or read 'Astagfarullah', anytime.
Re: How to pray Salat al-Istighfar?
Re: How to pray Salat al-Istighfar?
Actually i wanted to know as well. Thanks for info yo!..
Re: How to pray Salat al-Istighfar?
This is what the link says:
Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 2: Salatul Taubah, the prayer of penitence
Abu Bakr reports: “I heard the Prophet sallallahu alehi wasallam saying: ‘Allah forgives the man who commits a sin (then feels ashamed),purifies himself, offers a prayer and seeks His forgiveness.’ Then he recited the 'ayyah: 'And those who, when they do an evil thing or wrong themselves,remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allah? - and will not knowingly repeat (the wrong) they did. The reward of such will be forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever- a bountiful reward for workers.”’ [al-'lmran: 135-136]. This is related by Abu Dawud, an-Nasa’i,Ibn Majah, al-Baihaqi, and at-Tirmizhi who calls it hasan.
At-Tabarani records in al-Mu’jam al-Kabir, with a hasan chain, from Abuad-Darda’ that the Prophet sallallahu alehi wasallam said: “Whoever makes wudu’ and perfects the wudu’ and then stands and prays two rak’at or four rak’at, obligatory or non-obligatory, and perfects therein his ruku’ and sujjud and then asks for Allah’s forgiveness, he will be forgiven.”
Re: How to pray Salat al-Istighfar?
Peace,
One may offer two rakat Nafl as stated in hadith, with intention that I’m offering this prayer asking forgivness of my sins from Almighty Allah that HE will forgive my sins, any dua of forgivness may be asked after 1st and/or 2nd ruku, or after 1st and/or 2nd 'sajdah, or after completion of prayer.
Book ‘Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr’ of Sunan Abu-Dawud Hadith No. 1516.
“Narrated AbuBakr as-Siddiq: Asma’ bint al-Hakam said: I heard Ali say: I was a man; when I heard a tradition from the Prophet Muhammad 
, Allah benefited me with it as much as He willed. But when some one of his companions narrated a tradition to me I adjured him. When he took an oath, I testified him. AbuBakr narrated to me a tradition, and AbuBakr narrated truthfully. He said: I heard the Prophet Muhammad saying: "When a servant (of Allah) commits a sin, and he performs ablution well, and then stands and prays two rak’ahs, and asks pardon of Allah, Allah pardons him. He then recited this verse: “And those who, when they commit indecency or wrong their souls, remember Allah” (iii.134).”
In Quran [3:134]: “And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allah ? - and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know.”
The righteous man, when he finds he has fallen into sin or error, does not whine or despair, but asks for Almighty Allah’s forgiveness, and his faith gives him hope. If he is sinere, that means that he abandons his wrong conduct and makes amends. Sin is a sort of oppression of ourlsves by ourselves. This follows from the doctrine of personal responsibility, as opposed to that of blind fate or of any angry God of gods lying in wait for revenge or injry on mankind.