Tarawih - Wajib or not

All I hear is rhetoric and not arguments.

People used to pray in Ramadan in the time of the prophet (SAW) and the night prayer talked about time and again are Tahajjud prayers, which is a sunnat-e-mukadda and mentioned in Quran as well.

We find no such reference to a prayer called tarawih except in teh hadith where Umar called it Bid'a.

  1. Sunnis are trying to defend tarawih a biddat

  2. It said people continued praying individually and mostly at home just as teh Prophet (SAW) ordered. No one is disagreeing with reading Quran in Ramadan.

  3. "....... I ordered people that they should only gather for Fardh (obligatory) prayers during Ramadhan, and told them that congregation (Jamah) in Nafal (i.e. Tarawih) is a Bidah (innovation) then all of these people started shouting that Sunnah of Umar has been changed.
    Rudhutul Kafi, Sermon of Al-Fatan wa Al-Bidah