Fajr nafl prayer

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Fajr nafl prayer
Official name	رغيبة الفجر، نافلة الفجر، سُنَّةُ الفجر
Also called	Dawn supererogatory prayer
Observed by	Muslims
Type	Islamic
Significance	A Muslim prayer offered to God before Fajr prayer.
Observances	Sunnah prayers, Salah times
Begins	Second Adhan of Dawn
Ends	Fajr prayer
Frequency	Daily
Related to	Salah, Nafl prayer, Five Pillars of Islam, Chafa'a, Witr, Islamic prayers

Fajr nafl prayer (Arabic: رَغِيبَةُ الْفَجْرِ ; dawn supererogatory prayer) is an Islamic prayer (salat) that is performed after the second adhan of dawn and before Fajr (dawn-time prayer).

Presentation

The optional dawn prayer is a pair of rakats which are offered to God just before performing the obligatory Fajr prayer which is fard.

This nafilah is considered by Muslim jurists (fuqaha) to be a confirmed Sunnah, and it represents the beginning of the daytime prayers of the Muslim day, while the Witr is the closing of the nighttime prayers just after the Chafa'a prayer.

This Fajr nafilah is included in the prayers of regular Nafl prayers (ar - صلاة النافلة), which are the Sunnah prayers that follow the five obligatory prayers (Arabic: الصَّلَوَاتُ الْخَمْسَةُ).

This optional prayer performed before the obligatory dawn prayer is classified as a confirmed Sunnah according to Islamic law, is made of two rakates before the Fajr prayer are sealed with one taslim, and Muhammad performed them and advised his companions (Sahaba) to.

Muhammad encouraged it in the hadith that Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj narrated in his book Sahih Muslim within the chapter on traveler's prayer:

Arabic hadith	English translation
Arabic: « رَكْعَتَا الْفَجْرِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا » — Hadith	English: « The two rak'ahs of dawn are better than the world and everything in it. » — Hadith

Imam Al-Tabarani also has another hadith in his book Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir about the encouragement of this prayer, which reads:

Arabic hadith	English translation
Arabic: « لَا تَدَعُوا رَكْعَتَيْ الْفَجْرِ وَإِنْ طَارَدَتْكُمُ الْخَيْلُ » — Hadith	English: « Do not leave the two rak'ahs of Fajr even if the horses chase you. » — Hadith

See also

• Fajr prayer
• Dawn
• Adhan
• Witr
• Confirmed Sunnah
• Regular nafl prayers
• Traveler prayer