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English translation
398. 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Awf narrated that he heard the Prophet ﷺ saying: "When one of you becomes forgetful in his Ṣalāt so that he does not know if he prayed one or two, then let him consider it one. When he does not know if he prayed three or four, then let him consider it three, and let him perform two prostrations before he says the Taslīm." (Ḥasan)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan [Gharīb] Ṣaḥīḥ.
This Ḥadīth has been reported from 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Awf by routes other than this one. Az-Zuhrī reported it from 'Ubaidullāh bin 'Abdullāh bin 'Utbah from Ibn 'Abbās, from 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Awf, from the Prophet ﷺ.
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Commentary
It is known from this Ḥadīth that if, despite the vigorous contemplation the doubt cannot be gotten rid of, and there is certainty of two or three Rak'ah,
then the rest of the prayer will be based on the minimum number of certain Rak'ah, and the same method is to be adopted in the case of three or four Rak'ah.
