Chapter: Voluntary (Supererogatory) Prayers

The most strongly emphasized of them are the eclipse prayer, then the rain-seeking prayer, then the tarāwīḥ, and finally the witr. It1 is performed between the night prayer (ʿIshāʾ) and dawn (Fajr); its minimum is one rakʿah and its maximum eleven2, offered two at a time, and it is concluded with a single rakʿah. If he offers five or seven, he does not sit for the tashahhud until the last rakʿah; if nine, he sits after the eighth, recites the tashahhud without giving the salām, then rises for the ninth, after which he recites the tashahhud and gives the salām.

The lowest degree of completeness is three rakʿahs with two salāms: in the first he recites “Glorify the Name of your Lord Most High” (Sūrah al-Aʿlā), in the second “Say: O disbelievers” (Sūrah al-Kāfirūn), and in the third “Say: He is Allah, One” (Sūrah al-Ikhlāṣ), and he performs the qunūt in it after