The Second and Third Du‘a After the Prayer and the Customary Fatiha

Question

In our area live people of the Shafi‘i school, and after every obligatory prayer they make three du‘as each time, and they count this as part of the prayer itself — as if, until those three du‘as are finished, the prayer is not complete; these people have given the du‘as the status of fard. (1)

Answer

This method is not established by the noble hadith, and such strict adherence to it (as recorded in the questions) is a grave error. To regard as prayer what the Sacred Law has not made prayer, or to treat it like prayer, is an error both in belief and in practice; those who adhere to it strictly are in error.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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