and in their collections of exhortations and supposed virtues they trumpet the merits of various weekly and yearly prayers: the Sunday prayer, the Monday prayer, the Tuesday prayer, the Wednesday prayer, the Thursday prayer, the Friday prayer, and the Saturday prayer, all of which appear in the manuals of Abu Talib, Abu Hamid, ʿAbd al-Qadir, and others—together with the so-called Alfiyya (the one-thousand-unit prayer) that is performed at the beginning of