If after the time for maghrib and ʿishāʾ has expired one knows that he has performed a prayer but he does not know whether he performed a three or four rakʿah prayer, he must make up both the maghrib and ʿishāʾ prayers. [1] In Islamic law, the difference between a ‘doubt’ (shakk) and a ‘supposition’ (ẓann) is as follows: with a doubt, the person regards the two sides of a possibility as having an equal likelihood of being correct.
For example, he does not know whether he performed two rakʿahs or three and he deems both of these possibilities as having an equal likelihood of being correct. In this situation, his uncertainty is referred to as his doubt. With a supposition, however, the person regards one side of the possibility as having a greater likelihood of being correct than the other.
In the example above, if the person deems it more likely that he performed three rakʿahs rather than two, then this stronger possibility is his supposition. 4. An excessive doubter (kathīr al‑shakk) 2. Doubt after salām العربية فارسی اردو English Azərbaycan Türkçe Français