If a person praying passes through two prostrations of recitation in the prayer, does he prostrate for them all together in their order, or does he prostrate for one and leave the other?
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The questioner : This is a listener named Abu Suhayb. We return to the remainder of his questions. He says: If a person passes through two prostrations in the prayer, does he prostrate for them all together in their order, or does he prostrate for one and leave the other? And likewise, outside of the prayer.
The Shaykh : If a person passes through two prostrations, it is known that there are many surahs between the two prostrations, because there is no surah in which a prostration is followed immediately by another surah. Even if there may be two prostrations in the same surah, the point is that the two prostrations cannot coincide and occur at the same time. There must be a time between them, so he prostrates for the first one and prostrates for the second one, whether he is in prayer or not. Yes, if a person is repeating the Qur'an and he repeats the verse of prostration two or three times or more, then his prostration the first time suffices for the prostration in the subsequent times.
The questioner : Very well.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : If a person passes through two prostrations, it is known that there are many surahs between the two prostrations, because there is no surah in which a prostration is followed immediately by another surah. Even if there may be two prostrations in the same surah, the point is that the two prostrations cannot coincide and occur at the same time. There must be a time between them, so he prostrates for the first one and prostrates for the second one, whether he is in prayer or not. Yes, if a person is repeating the Qur'an and he repeats the verse of prostration two or three times or more, then his prostration the first time suffices for the prostration in the subsequent times.
The questioner : Very well.
The Shaykh : Yes.