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Salah in Islam is the second pillar of the religion and the daily meeting between a servant and his Lord, five times a day. This page gathers all our articles on salah in one place, built only on the Quran and authentic hadith, each with the Arabic text, its source, its grade and what it means for us today.
Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say:
أَرَأَيْتُمْ لَوْ أَنَّ نَهَرًا بِبَابِ أَحَدِكُمْ، يَغْتَسِلُ فِيهِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ خَمْسًا، مَا تَقُولُ ذَلِكَ يُبْقِي مِنْ دَرَنِهِ. قَالُوا لاَ يُبْقِي مِنْ دَرَنِهِ شَيْئًا. قَالَ فَذَلِكَ مِثْلُ الصَّلَوَاتِ الْخَمْسِ، يَمْحُو اللَّهُ بِهَا الْخَطَايَا
“Do you think that if there were a river at the door of one of you, and he bathed in it five times every day, any dirt would remain on him?” They said, “No dirt at all would remain on him.” He said, “That is the example of the five prayers, with which Allah wipes out sins.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 528 · Narrated by Abu Hurairah · Translation adapted from Sunnah.com
Imam Muslim records it too (Sahih Muslim 667). The articles below follow one path: why salah matters, how to prepare for it, how the Prophet ﷺ prayed, and the extra prayers that bring us closer to Allah.
Start here: why salah matters
- Importance of Salah: 7 Authentic Hadith: the first deed to be judged and the Prophet’s ﷺ last advice
- Hadith About Leaving Salah: the warning, and the way back
- Praying on Time: salah at its time, and guarding Asr
- Slept Through Fajr?: what the Prophet ﷺ did when the prayer was missed in sleep
Before you pray: wudu
- How to Make Wudu: the Prophet’s ﷺ ablution step by step
- What Breaks Wudu?: the authentic hadith, and where scholars differ
- Purity Is Half of Faith: Hadith 23 of an-Nawawi
How the Prophet ﷺ prayed
- How Did Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Pray?: from takbir to taslim
- Khushu in Salah: focus and humility in prayer
- Hamdan Kathiran Tayyiban: the words the angels raced to record
- What to Say in Ruku’ and Sujud
- Dua Between Two Sujud
- Dua During Sujud: 4 duas the Prophet ﷺ made in prostration
- Dua After Tashahhud
- Etiquette of Dua in Prayer: praise, salawat, then ask
- Dhikr After Salah: what the Prophet ﷺ said after every prayer
Congregation, Jummah and the mosques
- Praying in Congregation: the reward of jama’ah
- Importance of Jummah Prayer: the Friday prayer in authentic hadith
- Reward of Praying in Masjid Nabawi
- Masjid Quba Hadith: a reward like an Umrah
Voluntary (nafl) prayers
- Sunnah Prayers: the 12 daily rak‘ahs and a house in Paradise
- Sunnah of Fajr: better than the world and all it contains
- Surah al-Kafirun and al-Ikhlas in the Sunnah of Fajr
- Duha Prayer Hadith: the charity for every joint
- Witr Prayer Hadith: Allah is Witr and loves the witr
- Tahajjud Hadith: the night prayer and the last third of the night
- Istikhara Prayer: two rak‘ahs and the dua before a decision
- Tahiyyatul Masjid: two rak‘ahs when you enter the mosque
Latest salah articles
Tahiyyatul Masjid: Two Rak‘ahs When You Enter the Mosque
Istikhara Prayer: The Dua and How the Prophet ﷺ Taught It
Sunnah Prayers: The 12 Rak‘ahs That Build a House in Paradise
Qasr Prayer: 7 Authentic Hadith on Shortening and Combining
Witr Prayer Hadith: 6 Authentic Hadith on Witr
Duha Prayer Hadith: 5 Authentic Hadith on Salat al-Duha
Importance of Jummah Prayer: What the Hadith Say
How Did Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Pray? 5 Authentic Hadith
New salah articles appear here as they are published. To browse all of them, see every article in the Salah series.
Every article on this page checks its hadith against Sunnah.com and its verses against Quran.com. You can read how in Start Here.
Questions people ask
What is salah in Islam?
Salah is the ritual prayer Muslims offer five times a day, the second of the five pillars of Islam. In Sahih al-Bukhari 528 the Prophet ﷺ compared the five daily prayers to bathing in a river five times a day, through which Allah wipes out sins.
Where should I start reading about salah?
Start with Importance of Salah: 7 Authentic Hadith, then How to Make Wudu and How Did Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Pray? Together they explain why we pray, how to prepare and how the Prophet ﷺ prayed.
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