Ruling on performing a voluntary prayer with one unit and concluding with a single closing salam
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Honorable Shaykh! What is the validity of one who limits himself to a single unit?
The obligatory prayer cannot be a single unit; because it is well known, and the voluntary prayer of Witr is a single unit;By the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (The night prayer is in pairs, so if one of you fears the dawn, he prays a single unit, and that completes his Witr for what he has prayed) And the voluntary prayer other than Witr, and some scholars have authenticated that it is permissible for a person to perform a voluntary prayer with a single unit, but with dislike.
And what appears to me is that it is not valid to perform a voluntary prayer with a single unit, and what is reported from some of the Salaf is like other independent legal reasonings that may be wrong or may be right,And the evidence for that is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (The night prayer is in pairs) and in a narration: (The night and day prayer is in pairs) and this indicates that one does not perform a voluntary prayer with a single unit.
The questioner: What is the ruling on concluding the prayer with a single closing salam?Answer: Limiting oneself to a single closing salam, some scholars consider it permissible in voluntary prayers only, and others consider it permissible in both obligatory and voluntary prayers,And the correct view is: that it is not permissible to limit oneself to it, neither in the obligatory nor in the voluntary, and that it is obligatory to say the salam twice; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say the salam from the prayer twice,And he says: (Pray as you have seen me praying) So the fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was consistent in saying the two salams indicates that they are necessary, and this is the well-known position among the Hanbali scholars (may Allah have mercy on them).
The obligatory prayer cannot be a single unit; because it is well known, and the voluntary prayer of Witr is a single unit;By the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (The night prayer is in pairs, so if one of you fears the dawn, he prays a single unit, and that completes his Witr for what he has prayed) And the voluntary prayer other than Witr, and some scholars have authenticated that it is permissible for a person to perform a voluntary prayer with a single unit, but with dislike.
And what appears to me is that it is not valid to perform a voluntary prayer with a single unit, and what is reported from some of the Salaf is like other independent legal reasonings that may be wrong or may be right,And the evidence for that is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (The night prayer is in pairs) and in a narration: (The night and day prayer is in pairs) and this indicates that one does not perform a voluntary prayer with a single unit.
The questioner: What is the ruling on concluding the prayer with a single closing salam?Answer: Limiting oneself to a single closing salam, some scholars consider it permissible in voluntary prayers only, and others consider it permissible in both obligatory and voluntary prayers,And the correct view is: that it is not permissible to limit oneself to it, neither in the obligatory nor in the voluntary, and that it is obligatory to say the salam twice; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say the salam from the prayer twice,And he says: (Pray as you have seen me praying) So the fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was consistent in saying the two salams indicates that they are necessary, and this is the well-known position among the Hanbali scholars (may Allah have mercy on them).