Chapter on the Manner of Prayer, Explanation of the Fifty-One Rak‘ahs; The Order, Recitation, Tasbih in Bowing and Prostration, Qunut, and What is Obligatory and Recommended Therein
Chapter on the Manner of Prayer, Explanation of the Fifty-One Rak‘ahs; The Order, Recitation, Tasbih in Bowing and Prostration, Qunut, and What is Obligatory and Recommended Therein
فليس بدافع ان يكون الشهادتان واجبتين وإنما يدل على ان ما زاد عليهما ليس بواجب لان الزيادة على الشهادتين أيضا تسمى تشهدا والذي يبين ما ذكرناه
So this does not negate the possibility that the two testimonies (‘al-shahadatan’) are obligatory; rather, it indicates that what is beyond them is not obligatory, because anything added to the two testimonies is also referred to as ‘tashahhud’. And what clarifies what we have mentioned is:
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