Names of the Rightly Guided Caliphs in the tarwihas

Question

In many mosques du‘a’ is made after every four rak‘as of tarawih, and after the du‘a’ the names of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (al-khulafa’ al-rashidun) are mentioned. May this be done?

Answer

This has not come to my notice in hadith or fiqh. Those who do so need to be asked in which book it is found. Editor’s note: however, the jurists have written that a sitting for rest (jalsat al-istiraha) after every four rak‘as is mustahabb, and in it there is a choice: one may recite salawat and tasbih, or remain occupied with nafl and recitation of the Qur’an, or they may…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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