Salaatul Taubah

Time of performance: When the need arises, providing that it is not performed during any one of the prohibited times.

Number of Rakaats: 2 Rakaats

Benefits: Hazarat Ali (R.A) narrates that Hazarat Abu Bakr` (R.A) (who is certainly truthful, sincere of speech) narrated to me that he heard the Prophet (Peace be upon him) say, ” Whoever commits a sin and then gets up, performs Wudhu, and offers Salaah, and seeks the forgiveness of Allah, Allah in any case, forgives him”. After it The Prophet (Peace be upon him) recited the verse of the Qur’an: and those who, when they do an evil thing or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins who forgiveth sins save Allah only? – And will not, knowingly, repeat the wrong they did.

(3:135) (Tirmizi)

Ref: Nafl Salaah By Mufti A. H.Elias Page 5 & 6

A Selected Dua

None has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone, Who has no partner. His is the dominion and His is the praise and He is Able to do all things. (Recite ten times¹ in Arabic or one time to ward off...

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Info: ¹ Allah will write ten Hasanaat (rewards) for whoever recites this ten times in the morning, and forgive him ten misdeeds and give him the reward of freeing ten slaves and protect him from Satan. Whoever recites this ten times in the evening will get this same reward. An-Nasa'i, 'Amalul-Yawm wal-Laylah (no. 24). Its chain of transmission is sound (Sahih). Albani 1/272. Abu Hurayrah «fe narrated that the Prophet j§ said: "Allah will write one hundred Hasanat for whoever says There is no God but Allah alone, He has no partner. To Allah is possession of everything, and to Him all praise is. He is Capable of all things' ten times in the morning, and forgive him one hundred misdeeds. He will have the reward of freeing a slave and will be protected from Satan throughout the day unto dusk. Whoever says it in the evening will have the same reward." Ahmad 8/704, 16/293. Its chain of transmission is good (Hasan), Ibn Baz, p. 44. ² Whoever recites this in the morning, will have the reward of freeing a slave from the Children of Isma'il. Ten Hasanaat (rewards) will be written for him, and he will be forgiven ten misdeeds, raised up ten degrees, and be protected from Satan until evening. Whoever says it in the evening will have the same reward until morning. Abu Dawud 4/319, 3/957, Ahmad 4/ 60, Ibn Majah 2/331, Ibn Al-Qayyim Zadul-Ma'ad 2/388. Its chain of transmission is sound (Sahih). Al-Albani 1/270.

Salaatul Taubah

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A Selected Dua