Do Hanafi Scholars Also Consider 8 Rakʿāt Tarawih Sunnah?

Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri

❖ Question:​

Do some Ḥanafī scholars also consider eight rakʿāt of Tarāwīḥ to be Sunnah?

✿ Answer:​

Yes, several Ḥanafī scholars have written that eight rakʿāt of Tarāwīḥ are Sunnah.


❀ Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Shakūr Fārūqī Lakhnawī writes:


”Although eight rakʿāt of Tarāwīḥ are Sunnah from the Prophet ﷺ, and in one weak narration, there is mention of twenty rakʿāt from Ibn ʿAbbās رضي الله عنهما.“
(ʿIlm al-Fiqh, p.198)


The same has been mentioned by the following notable Ḥanafī scholars:


① ʿAllāmah Ibn Humām Ḥanafī
(Fatḥ al-Qadīr: 46/81)


② ʿAllāmah ʿAynī Ḥanafī
(ʿUmdat al-Qārī: 17/171)


③ ʿAllāmah Ibn Nujaym Ḥanafī
(al-Baḥr al-Rā’iq: 6/62)


④ ʿAllāmah Ibn ʿĀbidīn Shāmī Ḥanafī
(Radd al-Muḥtār: 1/521)


⑤ ʿAllāmah Abū al-Ḥasan Sharṇbalālī Ḥanafī
(Marāqī al-Falāḥ: p.442)


⑥ ʿAllāmah Ṭaḥṭāwī Ḥanafī
(Ḥāshiyat al-Ṭaḥṭāwī ʿalā al-Durr al-Mukhtār: 1/295)