with two or three bowings.”

For what is solidly established and multiply attested from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in the two Ṣaḥīḥs and elsewhere, through the narrations of ʿĀʾishah, Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr, and others, is that he performed each rakʿah with two bowings; and for this reason al-Bukhārī did not record