The Time Limit For Tahajud Prayers And The Best Time To Do It

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YOGYAKARTA The tajahud prayer is a sunnah prayer performed at night. If you want to perform this worship, what needs to be considered is the time limit for tahajud prayers. The reason is, the right time will determine whether the tahajud is valid or not. Then when can the tahajud deadline be implemented? Can the tahajud prayer be carried out at 4 am?

Reporting from the official website of Muhammadiyah, the tahajud prayer is a night sunnah prayer that is carried out after prayer isya until dawn. However, tahajud is regulated not only based on time.

In an explanation published in NU Online, the time of prayer for tahajud begins at night after someone performs fardu isya worship and that person has slept before. This is as explained by Sheikh Sulaiman Al-Bujairimi from Mazhab Syafi'I as follows.

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Meaning:

Dan telah diketahui bahwa salat tahajud tidak dapat dilaksanakan kecuali setelah tidur dan setelah salat isya. (Sulaiman Al-Bujairomi, Hasyiyatul Bujairimi ala Manhajit Thullab, [Beirut, Darul Pole Al-Ilmiah: 1971 M], volume I, page 365).

From this explanation, it can be concluded that tahajud is a sunnah prayer performed after someone sleeps and wakes up at night. Tahajud is a more special prayer than other night prayers.

Although tahajud can be done all night, there is the best time to do the sunnah prayer. This is explained in the book Kajiah in Ahmad Hawassy's Aswaja Framework. Based on the time distribution, there are the three best times to do tahajud, namely as follows.

The tahajud prayer is very important if it is done at the time starting after the service isya until 22.00.

At a higher stage, tahajud is more important if it is carried out right in the first third of the night, starting from 22.00 to 01.00 in the morning.

This time is considered the most important to carry out tahajud worship, which is at a time of one-third of the night. Muslims can perform tahajud from 01.00 in the morning until dawn.

The procedure for tahajud prayers is almost the same as other sunnah prayers. What is different is the intention and the number of rakaats that are not limited. Here are the tahajud methods and intentions, reported by NU Online.

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Ushamilberkan sunnatat tahajjudi rak ataini lillenghi ta

Meaning:

I intend to pray Tahajud's sunnah two rak'ahs because Allah ta'ala.

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