Ruling on Salah offered by someone who forgets the first Tashahhud and Sujud ul-Sahw - Shaykh Ibn Baaz

Ruling on Salah offered by someone who forgets the first Tashahhud and Sujud ul-Sahw*

Q: What should  a praying person  do if they forget to recite the first Tashahhud (a recitation in the sitting position  in the second/last unit of Prayer) and then forget to perform Sujud-ul—Sahw (Prostration of Forgetfulness)?

A: If they remember after the Taslim (salutation of peace ending the Prayer), they should perform Sujud-ul-Sahw. However, according to the more correct of the two opinions of scholars, if the period between the two actions (Taslim and remembering) is long, they are exempted from performing it. May Allah grant us success.

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*Questions associated with His Eminence's comment at Al-Jami' Al-Kabir in Riyadh on a lecture entitled "The Importance of Salah".

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