Tahajjud
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Tahajjud, () also known as the "night prayer" or "Qiyam-u-lail", as well as "Namaaz-e-Shab" (نماز شب) in Persian (later borrowed into Urdu and Hindi) is a voluntary prayer performed by followers of Islam. It is not one of the five obligatory prayers required of all Muslims, although the Islamic prophet Muhammad was recorded as performing the tahajjud prayer regularly himself and encouraging his companions. The Tahajjud prayer is usually performed in the last third of the night.
Key facts
- Holiday.holiday_name
- Tahajjud
- Holiday.type
- Islam
- Holiday.official_name
- صَلَاةُ الْتَهَجُّد
- Holiday.nickname
- Night supererogatory prayer
- Holiday.observedby
- Muslims
- Holiday.longtype
- Islamic
- Holiday.significance
- A Muslim prayer offered to God after Isha prayer.
- Holiday.begins
- After a night's sleep
- Holiday.ends
- Fajr prayer
- Holiday.frequency
- 2 to 12 rakah with witr or as much as you can but minimum is 2 rakah.
- Holiday.observances
- Sunnah prayers
- Holiday.relatedto
- Salah, Nafl prayer, Five Pillars of Islam
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- salah
- Subclass of
- Qiyam al-Layl
- Part of
- Itikaf
- Has part
- Raising hands in Dua
- Named after
- sleep
- Religion
- Sufism
- Operator
- Sufi
- Author
- God in Islam
- Country of origin
- Hejaz
- Series
- Taklif
- Followed by
- Suhur
- Follows
- Tarawih
- Based on
- prophetic biography
- Main subject
- worship in Islam
- Depicts
- Murid
- Duration
- 1
- Image
- 017079 Bani-Israel UrduScript.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Qiyam al-Layl
- Has use
- Nafl
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- location of creation
- Medina
- hashtag
- Tahajjud
- copyright status
- public domain
- different from
- Salah Al-Rawatib
- Commons category
- Tahajjud
- inception
- 0631-00-00
- facet of
- Five Pillars of Islam
- name in native language
- التَّهَجُّدُ
- culture
- Muslim world
- language of work or name
- Arabic
- illustrator
- tabi‘un
- commemorates
- wakefulness
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5
- partially coincident with
- Tarawih
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Islam
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Evidence in
- Recommended time
- Number of rakats
- References
- External links
Tahajjud, () also known as the "night prayer" or "Qiyam-u-lail", as well as "Namaaz-e-Shab" (نماز شب) in Persian (later borrowed into Urdu and Hindi) is a voluntary prayer performed by followers of Islam. It is not one of the five obligatory prayers required of all Muslims, although the Islamic prophet Muhammad was recorded as performing the tahajjud prayer regularly himself and encouraging his companions. The Tahajjud prayer is usually performed in the last third of the night.
== Evidence in == Next to these Qur'anic verses, there also exist a number of hadiths (narrated and confirmed traditions from Muhammad) that reinforce the importance of Tahajjud Prayer. In various hadiths, it has been mentioned as Qiyamul Sabah (standing of morning), Salatul Sabah (prayer of morning) and Tahajjud.
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