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What Is As-Salat Al-Wusta (The Middle Prayer)?

Question:

What Is As-Salat Al-Wusta?

Answer:

As-Salat Al-Wusta is the ?Asr Prayer. In an authentic Hadith, the Prophet sallAllaahu ?alayhi wa sallam said during the battle of Khandaq,

?They have kept us busy from As-Salat Al-Wusta.? (Al-Bukhari no.4111 and Muslim no.627)

Without a doubt, that is the ?Asr prayer. ?Wusta? literally means the middle number, but here it means the best.

Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen

Fatawa Islamiyah, vol.7, p.107, DARUSSALAM

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