it coincides with the sun’s re-appearance; but if they finish earlier, they may supplicate, engage in whatever they wish, and they do not repeat the prayer.

The eclipse is a sign by which Allah strikes awe into His servants; blessed, then, is the one who repents, humbles himself, and turns back to Him.

The eclipse prayer is not performed twice in the same day. Nor is a congregation convened for a lunar eclipse; instead, each person prays two rakʿahs individually until the moon is restored. Should someone, praying alone, offer it in the same manner as the solar-eclipse prayer, there is no harm in that, for a number of Medinan scholars held this view, among them al-Layth ibn Saʿd and Ibn Abī Salamah.

Likewise, if people do assemble behind an imam and perform it in the form of the solar-eclipse prayer, the doer is not to be reproached, for this was done by Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿUthmān, and other figures of Medina, and from among the jurists al-Shāfiʿī and several others adopted this opinion.

Whoever catches the second bowing of the first rakʿah has caught the entire prayer and need not make up any part of it; but if the first rakʿah escapes him,