the second Tashahhud; but for on both the first and second ones. In the had?th regarding the Sah?b? who failed to do his Sal?t properly, which is considered as a reference for obligations the first Tashahhud was mentioned in it as a W?jib while there is no mention of the second one. So, one could say that the first Tashahhud is more obligatory than the second one.

As for those who postulate that the first Tashahhud is not W?jib because when the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) forgot to do it, he did Suj?d As- Sahw, this postulation could be right if Suj?d As- Sahw were done only when forgetting to do the non- obligatory acts [in Sal?t] and it is surely not’. (1)

It is worth mentioning here that some people abandon the proper thikr that should be recited between the two Sajdas and say instead “All?umma Khall? ‘Ann?” and other false statements that the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) never said.

[11/ 22] Abandoning moving one’s right index in Tashahhud:

Ahmad in his “Musnad” (vol. 4/ p. 318), An-Nas?’? his “Mujtab?” (vol. 2/ pp. 126 - 7), (vol. 3/ p. 371), Ab? D?w?d in his “Sunnan” (no. 713), Ibn Khuzaimah in his “Sah?h” (no. 480, 714), Ibn Al- J?r?d in “Al- Muntaq?” (no. 208), Ibn Hibban in his” Sah?h” (no. 1851), Al- Baihaq? in “As- Sunnan Al- Kubr?” (vol. 2/ pp. 27, 28 and 132) and At- Tabar?n? in “Al- Mu’jam Al- Kab?r” (vol. 22/ p. 35) from W?’il Ibn Hujr to have said: ‘Indeed, I will watch how the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) performs his Sal?t. I watched him carefully; he ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) recited Takb?r, raising his hands, .. (till he said): ‘then raised his [right] index and I saw him moving it and calling into All?h’.

This is an explicit authentic narration stating the movement of the index finger [in Sal?t]. In another narration, the narrator Ibn Hujr used the simple present tense “Yarfa’”[moving] which implies