1- Doubts aroused in recommended prayers.

2- Doubts aroused in congregational prayers.

3- Doubts aroused after salutation (salaam).

4- Doubts aroused after the prescribed time for prayers.

5- Doubts of a person who doubts too often (kathree-ul-shak)

Issue 586: If a person happens to doubt three times in one prayer, or to doubt in three successive prayers, such as in down, midday and afternoon prayers, they are considered Katheer-ul-Shak (i.e., one who doubts too often), and if their doubts are not due to anger, fear, or absent-mindedness, they must ignore their doubts.

Issue 587: When a Katheer-ul-Shak doubts about performing a part of prayer, if performing it does not invalidate prayer, they must consider it as performed; For example, if they doubt whether they have performed a bow, they must ignore such doubt and consider the bow as performed; And if performing something renders prayers void, they must ignore their doubt and consider that act as not performed; For instance, if they doubt whether they have performed one or more bows, they must ignore such doubt and assume that they have not performed more than one bow, because performing extra bows invalidates prayers.

6- Doubts over a part whose time and sequence of performance has passed; For example, if, while bowing, a person doubts whether they have recited the Al-Hamd, this doubt must be ignored.

Issue 588: If a person doubts over the number of the Rak'ats of a recommended prayer, they must assume it to be the second Rak'at, because all recommended prayers but "Witr" and "Aa'raabee" prayers are two-Rak'at prayers. So, if they doubt whether they have performed one or two Rak'ats, or if they doubt whether they have performed two or more Rak'ats, they must assume that they have performed two Rak'ats, and their prayer will be valid.

Issue 589: If the leader of congregational prayers doubts about the number of the Rak'ats of the prayer, but the follower (Ma'mum) does not have such doubt and makes the leader realize which Rak'at it is that they are performing, then the leader must ignore his doubt. Similarly, if the follower has such doubt but the leader does not, he/she must follow the leader and do whatever he/she does and their prayer will be valid.

Issue 590: If a person doubts, after the salutation of the prayer, whether their prayer has been valid, their doubt must be ignored; For instance, if one doubts whether they have performed a bow, or if, after the salutation of a four-Rak'at prayer they doubt whether they have performed four or five Rak'ats, they must ignore their doubt; But if both sides of this doubt render the prayer invalid, for instance, if, after the salutation of a four-Rak'at prayer they doubt whether they have performed three Rak'ats or five, their prayer will be void.

Issue 591: If, after the time for some prayer has
passed, a person doubts whether they have offered their prayer or not, or if they suspect that they
have not offered it, it is not necessary for them to
offer it; However, if, before the time is over, they
have such doubt, they must offer that prayer, even if they think they have performed it but they are not sure.

Q592: What must a person do if after rising from a prostration they doubt whether it has been the first prostration or the second, but they guess at one of them as to be more likely to have been offered?

A: They must assume that they have offered the first prostration.

Q593: What must a person do if they are engaged in different kinds of doubt regarding their religious and non-religious matters and at times encounters unprecedented doubts?

A: They must ignore their doubts.