If you are in a four-rak'ah prayer and you stand up from the first tashahhud in error and have not yet straightened up in your standing, do I go back?
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The questioner : O Shaykh, if I am in a four-rak'ah prayer and I stand up without performing the first tashahhud in error, and I have not yet straightened up in my standing, do I go back? And what is the criterion for the addition for which sujud al-sahw is prescribed?
The Shaykh : And what is it?
The questioner : The criterion for the addition for which sujud al-sahw is prescribed?
The Shaykh : Yes, if a person stands up from the first tashahhud, if he fully straightens up in his standing, he does not go back; he completes his prayer and then prostrates two prostrations before the taslim. If he remembers before he fully straightens up in his standing, he goes back, because he has not reached the second pillar that comes after the tashahhud. He goes back and performs the tashahhud. In this case, we say: if a person’s buttocks have left his heels, it is obligatory for him to prostrate for forgetfulness because it is an addition. Otherwise, it is not obligatory for him to prostrate for forgetfulness. The apparent meaning of the hadith of al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah is that if he goes back, there is nothing upon him, even if his buttocks have left his heels, because this addition is not intended for its own sake, as it is a transition from one pillar to another. If he prostrates for forgetfulness as the jurists said, there is no harm. And if he leaves it, as is the apparent meaning of the hadith, there is no harm.
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The Shaykh : And what is it?
The questioner : The criterion for the addition for which sujud al-sahw is prescribed?
The Shaykh : Yes, if a person stands up from the first tashahhud, if he fully straightens up in his standing, he does not go back; he completes his prayer and then prostrates two prostrations before the taslim. If he remembers before he fully straightens up in his standing, he goes back, because he has not reached the second pillar that comes after the tashahhud. He goes back and performs the tashahhud. In this case, we say: if a person’s buttocks have left his heels, it is obligatory for him to prostrate for forgetfulness because it is an addition. Otherwise, it is not obligatory for him to prostrate for forgetfulness. The apparent meaning of the hadith of al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah is that if he goes back, there is nothing upon him, even if his buttocks have left his heels, because this addition is not intended for its own sake, as it is a transition from one pillar to another. If he prostrates for forgetfulness as the jurists said, there is no harm. And if he leaves it, as is the apparent meaning of the hadith, there is no harm.
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