LessonsEclipse Prayers: Solar and Lunar RulingsQuiz

Reports speak of two or four total bowings across the eclipse prayer, and some narrations mention more. Jurists and hadith scholars differ in how to weigh and reconcile them.

The core legal dispute concerns repeating the bowing within a single rak‘ah, not the number of prostrations.

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Why narrations differ on the bowing count

Eclipse Prayers: Solar and Lunar Rulings

Reports speak of two or four total bowings across the eclipse prayer, and some narrations mention more. Jurists and hadith scholars differ in how to weigh and reconcile them.

The core legal dispute concerns repeating the bowing within a single rak‘ah, not the number of prostrations.