{
 "id": "practice/salah",
 "class": "practice",
 "slug": "salah",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الصلاة",
  "en": "Salah (the prescribed prayer)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الصلاة المفروضة خمس مرات في اليوم والليلة، وهي من أركان الإسلام الخمسة؛ ورد الأمر بإقامتها في القرآن وبأنها كتاب موقوت على المؤمنين، وفي الحديث أن ما عداها من الصلوات تطوع.",
  "en": "The prescribed prayer, five times in the day and night, one of the five pillars of Islam; the Qur'an commands establishing it and calls it a timed obligation on the believers, and the hadith adds that other prayers are voluntary."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "worship-and-the-pillars"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "pillar",
  "obligation": "obligatory",
  "when": {
   "ar": "خمس صلوات في اليوم والليلة",
   "en": "five prayers in each day and night"
  },
  "scriptural_basis": [
   "passage/quran-2-43",
   "passage/quran-4-103",
   "passage/quran-17-78"
  ],
  "basis": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "value": "scriptural"
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "صحيح البخاري 8 و46 و50؛ القرآن",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "core-concepts-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari",
   "source/tanzil-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; hadith nos. 8, 46, 50 of Sahih al-Bukhari checked against the extracted text of the al-Bugha edition; ayat checked against the frozen Tanzil text"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«الصلاة» عبادة مفروضة، وهي من [[concept/five-pillars|أركان الإسلام الخمسة]] {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 8}. وفي حديث الرجل النجدي أن الفرض «خمس صلوات في اليوم والليلة»، وأن ما زاد عليها تطوّع {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 46}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في القرآن",
     "markdown": "يأمر القرآن بإقامة الصلاة مقرونة بالزكاة: [[passage/quran-2-43|البقرة 43]]. ويصفها بأنها «كتاب موقوت» على المؤمنين: [[passage/quran-4-103|النساء 103]]. وتذكر آية الإسراء أوقاتاً للصلاة: [[passage/quran-17-78|الإسراء 78]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في الحديث",
     "markdown": "في حديث جبريل، يجعل النبي «إقامة الصلاة» جزءاً من تعريف [[concept/islam-din|الإسلام]] {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 50}. وفي حديث الرجل النجدي، قال الرجل بعد سماع الفرائض: «والله لا أزيد على هذا ولا أنقص»، فقال النبي: «أفلح إن صدق» {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 46}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما لم يُذكر هنا",
     "markdown": "تفصيل أوقات الصلاة وهيئتها وأحكامها واختلاف المذاهب فيها يُضاف في دفعة لاحقة من كتب الفقه، مع بيان مذهب كل قول."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "practice/salah",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "\"The prayer\" is an obligatory worship, one of [[concept/five-pillars|Islam's five pillars]] {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 8}. In the Najdi man's hadith the obligation is \"five prayers in the day and night\", and what exceeds them is voluntary {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 46}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the Qur'an",
     "markdown": "The Qur'an commands establishing the prayer coupled with the zakat: [[passage/quran-2-43|al-Baqara 43]]. It describes it as \"a timed ordinance\" upon the believers: [[passage/quran-4-103|al-Nisa' 103]]. The verse of al-Isra' mentions prayer times: [[passage/quran-17-78|al-Isra' 78]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the hadith",
     "markdown": "In Gabriel's hadith the Prophet makes \"establishing the prayer\" part of the definition of [[concept/islam-din|Islam]] {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 50}. In the Najdi man's hadith, the man said after hearing the obligations: \"By God I shall add nothing to this and take nothing from it\", and the Prophet said: \"He prospers if he is truthful\" {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 46}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "What is not covered here",
     "markdown": "The detail of prayer times, its form, its rulings and the schools' disagreements on it will be added in a later batch from the fiqh books, with each position's school identified."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "practice/salah",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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  {
   "to": "passage/quran-2-43",
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    "source/tanzil-quran"
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   "to": "passage/quran-4-103",
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 "related": [
  "concept/islam-din",
  "concept/shahada",
  "practice/hajj",
  "practice/sawm-ramadan",
  "practice/zakat",
  "concept/five-pillars",
  "passage/arbaun-03",
  "concept/amr-nahy"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}