Types

Farḍ (Obligatory)

• Fajr – 2 rak’āt
• Ẓuhr – 4 rak’āt
• ‘Aṣr – 4 rak’āt
• Maghrib – 3 rak’āt
• ‘Īsha’ – 4 rak’āt
• Jumu’ah (for men to attend at the masjid, consisting of the khutbah & 2 rak’āt with the imām)

Wājib (Mandatory)

• Ṣalātul Witr – 3 rak’āt (to be prayed together with one set of salāms)

Sunnah Mu’akkadah (Emphasized Sunnah)

• Before Fajr – 2 rak’āt
• Before Ẓuhr – 4 rak’āt
• After Ẓuhr – 2 rak’āt
• After Maghrib – 2 rak’āt
• After ‘Īsha’ – 2 rak’āt
• Before the Friday prayer – 4 rak’āt
• After the Friday prayer – 4 rak’āt
• Ṣalātul Tarawīḥ – 20 rak’āt (performed in sets of two, with ten sets of salāms)

Sunnah Mustaḥabb (Recommended Sunnah)

• 4 rak’āt before ‘Aṣr
• 4 rak’āt before ‘Īsha’
• 4 rak’āt after ‘Īsha’
• 6 rak’āt after Maghrib (with three sets of salāms; the two rak’āt of emphasized sunnahs after Maghrib can be counted among these six rak’āt)

General Sunnahs

• Tahiyyatul Masjid – 2 rak’āt
• Post Wuḍū’ – 2 rak’āt
• Ṣalātul Ḍuḥā – 4-12 rak’āt
• Any voluntary prayers
• Ṣalātul Istikhārah
• Ṣalātul Hājah
• The night prayer before the two days of Eid
• The night prayer during the last ten nights of Ramaḍān
• The night prayer during the first ten nights of Dhūl Ḥijjah
• The night prayer of mid-Sha’bān (the 15^th of Sha’bān)