rak‘ahs, and that was during the Duha.

Agreed upon, and this is an abridged wording of one of Muslim’s narrations.

[Explanation]
Chapter: The virtue of the Duha prayer and a statement of its minimum, maximum, and median number of rak‘ahs.

Salat al-Duha consists of two or more rak‘ahs offered from the moment the sun has risen a spear’s length above the horizon until just before the zenith. The sun’s reaching a spear’s height is roughly a quarter of an hour, or thereabouts, after sunrise; from that point the time for Duha begins and lasts until about ten minutes before the zenith.

All of this span counts as its time, yet performing it near the end of the period is preferable, because the Prophet ﷺ said: “The prayer of the penitent (ṣalāt al-awwābīn) is when the young camels feel the heat of the ground.” The “young camels” are the offspring of she-camels, and “feel the heat” means that the heat of the sand has become intense for them—something that happens toward the end of the Duha time.

This is therefore one of the prayers whose postponement is recommended. Its counterpart among the obligatory prayers is the ‘Isha prayer, for it too may be delayed to the end of its time unless doing so would cause hardship for the people.

Salat al-Duha is among the practices the Prophet ﷺ instructed certain of his Companions to observe. He enjoined it upon Abu Hurayrah, Abu al-Dardaʾ, and Abu Dharr. The Prophet ﷺ said to Abu Hurayrah, may Allah