If I am unsure whether I prostrated once or twice, what is required of me in this case?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. If you are in the last two prostrations of an obligatory or voluntary prayer and you prolong the prostration, and when you raise your head from the prostration you forget or are unsure whether you prostrated once or twice, what is required of me in this case? Do I perform a prostration or do I prostrate twice for forgetfulness? I ask for your guidance. May Allah reward you with good. If you are unsure whether you prostrated
The Shaykh:
twice or once, then you build upon certainty, considering it one prostration, and you perform a second one?
The presenter:
Then at the
The Shaykh:
salam, you prostrate for forgetfulness. You perform a second prostration, building upon certainty.
The questioner:
Do you prostrate twice for forgetfulness, or after the salam?
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. If you are in the last two prostrations of an obligatory or voluntary prayer and you prolong the prostration, and when you raise your head from the prostration you forget or are unsure whether you prostrated once or twice, what is required of me in this case? Do I perform a prostration or do I prostrate twice for forgetfulness? I ask for your guidance. May Allah reward you with good. If you are unsure whether you prostrated
The Shaykh:
twice or once, then you build upon certainty, considering it one prostration, and you perform a second one?
The presenter:
Then at the
The Shaykh:
salam, you prostrate for forgetfulness. You perform a second prostration, building upon certainty.
The questioner:
Do you prostrate twice for forgetfulness, or after the salam?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، إذا شكيت أني سجدت سجدة واحدة أم سجدتين، فماذا يكون علي في هذه الحالة؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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