Praying twenty rak’ahs for the taraaweeh prayer

Reference: al-Haawee min Fataawa ash-Shaykh al-Albaanee p278

Question: Is the one who prays twenty rak’ahs for the taraaweeh prayer considered to have opposed the Sunnah?

Response: If we pray twenty rak’ahs for the taraaweeh prayer then we are considered to have opposed the Sunnah, that is because we know the Sunnah [is not so]. As for the one who thinks the [taraaweeh] prayer is twenty rak’ahs, then we say to him you have opposed the Sunnah.


Translation originally published on 11 November, 2003.

Graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having completed the Arabic Language programme at the Institute of Arabic Language before progressing to the Faculty of Sharee'ah, from which he graduated in 2004.

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