Conditions of Prayer Part 3: Time, Intention, and Opening Takbir

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• If a person begins their prayer while having doubt (Shakk) about whether the time has entered, and subsequently discovers that the time had indeed entered, what is the legal status of their prayer?
• For voluntary (Nafal) and regular Sunnah prayers, it is strictly mandatory to explicitly specify the particular prayer in the intention.
• Which of the following actions, if performed between making the intention and uttering the Opening Takbir, invalidates the intention?
• Merely conceiving the Opening Takbir (Tahrimah) in the heart without vocalizing it with enough volume to hear oneself is legally valid for starting the prayer.
• Which of the following phrases is INVALID for starting the prayer because it belongs to supplication (Du'a) rather than pure glorification of Allah?
• If a follower completes his Opening Takbir (Tahrimah) before the Imam completes his own, the follower's entry into the prayer is valid.
• Match the intention scenario with its correct specification requirement according to Hanafi rules:
• Sort the following phrases into whether they are valid or invalid to start the prayer as the Opening Takbir: