The Repeated Prostration for Forgetfulness in the Prayers
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The questioner:
Is the prostration for forgetfulness permissible if it occurs in more than one obligatory prayer in a single day, or is it better to repeat the prayer despite trying to focus in the prayer?
The Shaykh:
The prostration for forgetfulness is sufficient. If one prostrates for forgetfulness in the midday prayer, and then prostrates for forgetfulness in the afternoon prayer, likewise,
The questioner:
Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
It is to be accompanied by.
The Shaykh:
So if a person asks a man or a woman in the midday prayer, for example, and is in doubt between three or four, he completes three, performs a fourth, then prostrates a prostration to settle before he says the closing salam. And if he is in doubt in the sunset prayer between two and three, he acts on the third as a precaution for the right, then prostrates his prostration for forgetfulness before he says the salam. And finally, in the prostration, he prostrates one or two prostrations as a precaution; he prostrates a second prostration until he is in doubt, and if he reaches the salam, he prostrates two prostrations before he says the salam. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Is the prostration for forgetfulness permissible if it occurs in more than one obligatory prayer in a single day, or is it better to repeat the prayer despite trying to focus in the prayer?
The Shaykh:
The prostration for forgetfulness is sufficient. If one prostrates for forgetfulness in the midday prayer, and then prostrates for forgetfulness in the afternoon prayer, likewise,
The questioner:
Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
It is to be accompanied by.
The Shaykh:
So if a person asks a man or a woman in the midday prayer, for example, and is in doubt between three or four, he completes three, performs a fourth, then prostrates a prostration to settle before he says the closing salam. And if he is in doubt in the sunset prayer between two and three, he acts on the third as a precaution for the right, then prostrates his prostration for forgetfulness before he says the salam. And finally, in the prostration, he prostrates one or two prostrations as a precaution; he prostrates a second prostration until he is in doubt, and if he reaches the salam, he prostrates two prostrations before he says the salam. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
فتاوى الحج ١٤١٠ هـ - ١ — archive.org (56:05)
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