Section: The times and circumstances in which supplications are answered
Among them are: Laylat al-Qadr (the Night of Decree); the Day of ʿArafah; the month of Ramadan; the eve of Friday; the day of Friday and its special hour.

Among them, too, is the depth of the night. Al-Tirmidhi has recorded this (3499) and deemed it good, on the authority of Abu Umamah, who said: “It was asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, which supplication is most likely to be heard?’ He replied, ‘In the middle of the night and at the close of the prescribed prayers.’”

The expression “at the close” covers both the supplication made after the final tashahhud while still within the prayer and that made after ending it with the salām.

Another occasion is at the moment of the call to prayer. Mālik narrated in the Muwaṭṭaʾ (155) and Abū Dāwūd (2540), from Sahl ibn Saʿd, that the Messenger of Allah said: “Two supplications are never rejected: at the time of the call to prayer and at the moment of peril when the fighters engage one another.”

Likewise, between the adhān and the iqāmah, at the close of the obligatory prayers, and while in prostration.