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Sajdah Sahw & Tilawat
400 fatawa from 9 South African Darul Iftas on Sajdah Sahw & Tilawat, part of Salah & Masjid. Newest first; every fatwa links to the page where its Darul Ifta published it.
Subtopics are grouped from each Darul Ifta’s own categories and the fatwa titles, so the count is approximate.
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Sajdah Sahw & Tilawat fatawa — page 1 of 10
- Azaadville21 Sep 2026
Sajdah Tilaawat After Pausing For A Sip Of Water
If a person who is learning and repeating an Aaayat of Sajdah takes a short water break in between his learning, will it require that multiple…
- Azaadville19 Sep 2026
Sajdah Tilaawat When A Teacher Corrects A Students
When a Hifdh teacher listens and corrects a mistake, how many Sajdah Tilaawat does the teacher and student need to perform?
- Azaadville17 Sep 2026
Sajdah Tilaawat In A Hifz Class
In Hifdh classes, students learn on their places and also go to their teacher to read. Will that be classed as two separate Majlis and make two…
- Mufti Online12 Aug 2026
Performing an extra sajda-e-sahw in salaah
Does doing an extra sajda-e-sahw affect salaah? In the last sitting, I recited tashahhud, did sajda-e-sahw, then recited tashahhud, and became…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online15 Jul 2026
Imaam performing five rakaat salaah
If the Imaam reads 5 Rakaats Salaah, does the Salaah have to be repeated? Whilst the Imaam is in the 5th Rakaat he realizes that he read an extra…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Ibn Masood9 Jun 2026
Masaa’il Pertaining To Sajdah Tilaawat
Please explain the various Masaa’il of Sajdah Tilaawah for learning/teaching the Quraan Shareef: 1. If the Ustaadh reads the Ayah of Sajdah and the…
Mufti Umar Farooq Rangila - Jamiat KZN22 Apr 2026
Is Wudhu a requirement for Sajdah Tilaawat?
I wanted to enquire about whether one needs to be in a state of Wudhu when doing the Sajdah Tilaawat.
Mufti Muhammed Hamza Farooqui - Azaadville13 Jan 2026
Sajdah-Tilaawat When Listening To A Recording Of Quraan-Shareef
What is the ruling with regard to listening to an Aayat of Sajdah from a recording?
- Mufti Online28 Dec 2025
Making sajdah sahw for no reason in salaah
Does doing sajdah sahw even if you're sure your prayer is right invalid salaah?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Amjadi21 Dec 2025
The Rulings of Sajdah Tilaawat For Qur'an Reciters, Students, And Teachers
Under what circumstances does Sajdah Tilaawat (the prostration of Qur’anic recitation) become Waajib (compulsory), upon whom is it binding, and what…
Mufti Mohammad Quaiser Ali Razvi Misbahi - Mufti Online1 Dec 2025
Muqtadi making a mistake behind the imaam
If a muqtadi makes any mistake in his own salaah behind the imaam, then does he have to repeat the salaah or is the imaams salaah counted?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Ibn Masood28 Nov 2025
Ayah Of Sajdah Effective Over Recording
If one hears an Ayah of Sajdah over a recording, does Sajdah Tilaawah become incumbent?
Mufti Abdul Kader Fazlani - Ibn Masood12 Nov 2025
Forgetting To End Salaah With Sajdah Sahw
Sajdah Sahw became incumbent on a person due to the omission of a Waajib act in his Salaah. However, he only remembered after he completed his…
Mufti Abdul Kader Fazlani - Camperdown21 Oct 2025
Hanafi Omitting Tashahhud After Sajdah Sahw While Following a Shafi Imam
Assalamu Alaykum. I am a hanafi who read salah behind a Shafi. The Shafi imam made an error and made sajdah sahw at the end. However, the Shafis…
Baba Abu Bakr - Mufti Online9 Sep 2025
Forgetting to recite Surah Faatihah in the second rakaat of a sunnah salaah
During the second rakaat of a sunnah salaah, someone while reading another surah, remembers that he forgot to read Surah Faatihah. Thereafter, he…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online7 Sep 2025
Forgetting to make sajdah tilaawat in salaah
What is the ruling regarding one who recites an aayah of Sajdah during Salaah and forgets to make the Sajdah?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online1 Sep 2025
Reciting an aayah of the Quraan Majeed in the qa’dah of salaah
If a person recites an aayah in qa’dah, will sajdah sahw be compulsory upon him?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online26 Aug 2025
Imaam going into ruku after reciting a sajdah aayat
A few days ago, our imam recited Surah Alaq in the second rakah of Isha salaah. When he recited the aayah of sajdah, he did not perform the…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online12 Aug 2025
Reciting the tashahhud in ruku or sajdah
1. Does (mistakenly) reciting the tashahhud (partially or fully) in ruku', rising from ruku', prostration, or sitting in between the prostrations,…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online9 Jul 2025
Sajdah sahw if someone recited Quraan after rising from rukoo
Is Sajdatus-sahw necessary if someone recited Quran after rising from ruku'?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Azaadville7 Jul 2025
Omitting A Sajdah In Salaah
If a person misses a Sajdah in Salaah, what must be done to compensate for it?
- Mufti Online19 May 2025
Folding one's hands in the last rakaat of the sunnats of fajr while sitting and performing salaah
If sitting down and performing sunnat of Fajr, after the last sajdah of the salah, one puts their hands up again for Surah Fatiha, but remembers…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Ask Imaam15 May 2025
Will Sajda-E-Sahw suffice for missing ruku in witr salaah?
Aslam Alikum. Today during the Salat-ul-Witr, The Imaam of my mosque, in 3rd rakaat, forgot to make Dua after saying Allah-ho-Akbar and went…
Ridwaan Ibn Khalid Esmail [Kasak] - Camperdown10 Mar 2025
Taraweeh Salaah-Sajdah Sahw
During Taraweeh Salaah, the Imaam was unsure whether Sajdah Sahw was necessary, so he performed it as a precaution. Is the Salaah valid, or does it…
Azhar Mownah - Mufti Online28 Jan 2025
Shaafi imaam not making sajdah sahw
If I am performing salaah as a Hanafi behind a Shaafi and he makes an error by forgetting the first tashahud in Asr Salaah, what is the right way of…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online2 Dec 2024
Imaam making a mistake in qiraat and remaining silent for more than three subhanallahs
The imaan was reading Surah Sajdah. He got stuck repeatedly and paused for more then 3 subhanAllahs. Does salaah need to be repeated because he…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Azaadville23 Nov 2024
The Aayaat After The Recital Of Which Sajdah Tilaawaat Becomes Waajib
Which Aayaat necessitate that Sajdatut Tilaawaah be performed?
- Mufti Online17 Nov 2024
Sajdah tilaawat when listening to an aayat of sajdah over the livemasjid
With regard to listening to a musjid program over livemasjid, there is a delay in the transmission of approximately thirty seconds compared to…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online2 Nov 2024
Repeating a few aayaat of Surah Faatihah in salaah
If a person repeats a few aayat of Surah Faatiha, will he have to make sajdah sahw? What if he did that to improve the tajweed, meaning that first…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - MUBZ6 Aug 2024
Sajdah Sahw
Assalamulaikum Respected Mufti Saheb 1. If one makes a mistake during salaah, such as being unsure of missing a raka’ah or reading an additional…
- Camperdown1 Aug 2024
Maulana Sahib, I have a question: When someone makes a mistake in their Salah that…
Maulana Sahib, I have a question: When someone makes a mistake in their Salah that requires Sajdah as-Sahw, before the first Salam for the Sajdah…
Suale Maguene Faine - Mufti Online27 Jul 2024
Making sajdah sahw after mistakenly making a third sajdah
During prayer, by mistake, I went on for the third sajdah but as soon as I realized, I sat back without completing سبحن ربی الاعلی three times and…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Camperdown6 Jul 2024
Assalaamu alaykum respected Mufti Saheb. If someone is praying a 4 Rakats Namaz and he…
Assalaamu alaykum respected Mufti Saheb. If someone is praying a 4 Rakats Namaz and he forgets to sit in the first Qa’dah, what should the person do…
Sulaimān Al-Amīn Victor - Camperdown14 May 2024
Validity of Salah
Assalaamu alaikum Respected Mufti sahib I missed the first rakaat of Isha behind the imaam. When I stood to complete my salaah after the imam made…
Anas Bin Mohammad - Mufti Online18 Apr 2024
Imaam making ruku immediately after reciting a sajdah aayah
If I am doing imaamat, and I make ruku immediately after a reciting a sajdah aayah in loud salaah, will this cause confusion within the musallees,…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Ibn Masood8 Mar 2024
Doubts occuring in Salaah
1.. A person cannot recall how many Sajdahs were made in Salaah. What is the ruling? 2. A person in the 3rd Rakaat of Salaah doubts whether he…
Maulana Abdul Kader Fazlani - Jamiat KZN26 Feb 2024
Method of making multiple Sajdah Tilaawah
I would like to enquire about what the method is to perform multiple SajdahTilaawats in one sitting. What is the procedure for this?
Mufti Moosa Salie - Mufti Online27 Jan 2024
Imaam going into ruku immediately after reciting the aayat of sajdah and making the intention of sajdah tilaawat in ruku
In Fardh Salaah, as an Imaam, if I read an Aayah of Sajdah, can I immediately go into ruku at the end of the Sajdah Aayah? i.e. (not going down into…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Ibn Masood24 Jan 2024
Perfroming Sajdah-e-Tilaawat during the silent Salaah
If an Imaam in Zuhr or Asr Salaah reads a Sajdah Ayah, must he make Sajdah-e-Tilaawat?
Maulana Abdul Kader Fazlani - Ibn Masood22 Jan 2024
Imaam making intention of Sajdah-e-Tilaawat in Ruku
In Fardh Salaah, as an Imaam, if I read an Aayah of Sajdah, can I immediately go into Ruku at the end of the Sajdah Aayah with the intention of…
Mufti Mohammed Desai
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