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فَرَائِضُ الصَّلَاةِ سِتَّةٌ: التَّحْرِيمَةُ، وَالْقِيَامُ، وَالْقِرَاءَةُ، وَالرُّكُوعُ، وَالسُّجُودُ، وَالْقَعْدَةُ الْأَخِيرَةُ مِقْدَارَ التَّشَهُّدِ، وَمَا زَادَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَهُوَ سُنَّةٌ.
Meaning: Prayer has six obligations: the opening consecrating formula, standing, recitation, bowing, prostration, and sitting at the end for the time needed to recite the tashahhud. What is beyond this is termed Sunnah.

This is a concise enumeration of integral obligations, not a denial of the separate Hanafi category of wajib acts.

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Description of Prayer: The Six Obligations

فَرَائِضُ الصَّلَاةِ سِتَّةٌ: التَّحْرِيمَةُ، وَالْقِيَامُ، وَالْقِرَاءَةُ، وَالرُّكُوعُ، وَالسُّجُودُ، وَالْقَعْدَةُ الْأَخِيرَةُ مِقْدَارَ التَّشَهُّدِ، وَمَا زَادَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَهُوَ سُنَّةٌ.
Meaning: Prayer has six obligations: the opening consecrating formula, standing, recitation, bowing, prostration, and sitting at the end for the time needed to recite the tashahhud. What is beyond this is termed Sunnah.

This is a concise enumeration of integral obligations, not a denial of the separate Hanafi category of wajib acts.