Forgotten Sunnah #13: Reciting some verses in the third and fourth rakah of Zuhur prayer It is permissible to recite a soorah after Soorah al-Faatihah in the third and fourth rak`ah. This was the view of Imaam ash-Shaafi`ee and Imaam Ahmad. It was based on the hadeeth of Aboo Sa`eed al Khudri (radiAllaahu `anhu) that the Prophet used to recite in the first two rakahs of Zuhr prayer approximately thirty verses in each rakah, and in the last two rakahs approximately fifteen verses, or he said: half of that. In the first two rakahs of Asr he used to recite in each rakah approximately fifteen verses, and in the last two rakahs approximately half of that. [Muslim, 452]Thus, the scholars mention that it is sunnah to sometimes recite a soorah (after faatihah) in the last two raka`ah and sometimes not to recite a soorah (after faatihah) in the last two raka`ah. And this is how some of the scholars re-concile between the above hadeeth and this hadeeth: Abu Qataadah said that the Prophet used to recite the Opening of the Book and a soorah in the first two rakahs of Zuhr and Asr, and he would let us hear a verse sometimes, and in the last two rakahs he would recite al-Faatihah.[Muslim, 451]
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