314 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said, “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform four rakʿahs for the Duha prayer and would add to that whatever Allah willed.” Reported by Muslim (1).

315 – Muslim also relates from her: “She was asked, ‘Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) pray the Duha prayer?’ She replied, ‘No—except when he returned from a journey.’” (2)

316 – He likewise narrates from her: “I never saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) perform the Duha supererogatory prayer at all, yet I do observe it myself.” (3)

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Vocabulary of the hadiths
• mughībihi: from the verb ghāba – yaghību – ghaybā, meaning to travel and be absent. Al-mughīb functions as a noun of time or place.
• qaṭṭ: with an open qāf and a geminated ṭā carrying ḍammah. Al-Muʿjam al-Wasīṭ defines it as an adverb covering the whole past. The colloquial use, “I will never do that qaṭṭ,” is incorrect because the word is restricted to past time.
• subḥat al-duhā: with ḍammah on the initial sīn and sukūn on the bā; it refers to a voluntary prayer. In Arabic, tasbīḥ can denote both remembrance and prayer; hence one may say, “He yusabbiḥ,” meaning he prays the subḥah, whether obligatory or supererogatory.

Points derived from the hadiths
1 – These three hadiths concern the rulings of the Duha prayer, which is a sunnah regarding which