Eclipse Prayer (Salatul- Kusoof)

The Eclipse prayer is Sunnah Mu’akkadah and is a two Rak’ah prayer. 

But it has two rukoo in EACH rak’ah. 

How to pray this prayer step by step :

- say Allaahu Akbar and enter into the prayer 

- Read the opening duaa, and al-Faatihah as you would for any prayer. 

- then after al-Faatihah, read Qur’aan making the recitation LONG.

(If you’re praying by yourself, you may look into the 

Mus-haf and read directly)

- go into rukoo, making it lengthy

- rise from rukoo saying the dhikr as you would for any other prayer. (“Sami‘a Allahu liman hamidah, Rabbana wa laka al-hamd”)

- Then instead of going into sajdah, you will start reading al-Faatihah AGAIN, followed by another lengthy recitation of the Qur’aan. 

But this time, don’t make it as long as the first recitation.

- then go into rukoo again, making it lengthy but not as long as the first time.

- rise from rukoo as usual saying “Sami‘a Allahu liman hamidah, Rabbana wa laka al-hamd”

and stand for a long time making duaa. 

- go into sajdah twice (as usual), making each sajdah lengthy. 

- Then get up for the second rak‘ah, and do the same as you did in the first rak‘ah, bowing twice and so on, but each action is not as long as in the first. 

- Then sit for tashahhud and say the tasleem as you would for any other prayer. 

So all together, there are FOUR rukoo and FOUR sujood. 

And Allaah knows best