and with the commands to supplicate and give charity. No one maintains that giving charity, proclaiming Allah’s greatness, or supplicating at the time of an eclipse is obligatory. By scholarly consensus, the command concerning these acts indicates recommendation; the same therefore applies to the command to pray, which is coupled with them. (1) Allah is the One who grants success.

• (2-13-4) The Manner of the Eclipse Prayer and the Number of Its Units:

This discussion comprises the following issues:

First issue: Neither the adhān nor the iqāma is given for the eclipse prayer.

Second issue: The number of units in the eclipse prayer.

Third issue: The recitation in the eclipse prayer is performed aloud.

Fourth issue: It is performed congregationally in the mosque.

Fifth issue: If a person misses one of the two bowings in a unit.

The details are as follows:

First issue: Neither the adhān nor the iqāma is given for the eclipse prayer:

The scholars agree that neither the adhān nor the iqāma is given for the eclipse prayer. (2) It is recommended (3) that people be summoned to it with the announcement, “Gather for prayer!”

The evidence for this is the established report from Abdullah ibn Amr—may Allah be pleased with them both—who said: “When the sun was eclipsed during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—the announcement was made: ‘Gather for prayer!’” Reported by al-Bukhārī and Muslim. (4)