´Mu’adhah Al-‘Adawiyyah said:` “I asked ‘Aishah: ‘Did the Prophet (ﷺ) pray Duha?’ She said: ‘Yes; four (Rak’ah) and he would add whatever Allah willed.’”
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Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
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From this it is understood that, besides Umm Hani radi Allahu anha, Aisha radi Allahu anha also saw the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam performing the Duha (forenoon) prayer.
And a legal ruling (mas’alah) is established even from the narration of a single Companion radi Allahu anhu.
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The Duha prayer can be performed with less or more than eight units (rak‘ahs); its minimum is two units (rak‘ahs). (Sahih Muslim, Salat al-Musafirin, Chapter: Recommendation of Salat al-Duha, Hadith: 720, 721)
On the occasion of the Conquest of Makkah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam performed eight units (rak‘ahs).
In Hadith 1379, there is a reference to this very incident.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 1381