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The fourth category of Sunnah prayers, those salawat that it is encouraged, that it is encouraged to have a congregation, a Jama'ah.

Okay. So these ahadith, sorry, these salawat it is Sunnah to come together and have salatul Jama'ah.

Number one, at tarawih, salatul tarawih.

And this is the well-known salatul tarawih that the term tarawih does not occur in the hadith by the way.

And it is called tarawih from resting because after every four rakahat, they would rest.

Okay. So it is called tarawih from resting. That after every four rakahat, they would pause for a while and then they would rest.

So it is called tarawih. And this is from the tarawih that is not from the Prophet salatul tarawih, but it is from the early, early part of Islam.

Now, what he has shirun rakahatan, bad al-Ishah, if he Ramadan. And salatul tarawih is twenty rakahat after Ishah in Ramadan.

Now, the twenty rakahat, where does it come from? It comes from the actions of Ibn al-Khattar, radiallahu a'an.

That it is reported that, now we all know in Ramadan, we go over this every single year, that our Prophet salatul tarawih, two nights, not even three, two nights.

He observed tarawih one night and the people prayed behind him. The next day, in Ramadan, the masjid basically became full and they prayed behind him.

The third day, the masjid was packed to capacity, but he didn't come out. And of course, in their edab, they didn't knock on his door or anything.

He is also not going to disturb him. So they waited, waited, waited until Fajr. And he came out and he said that, I knew your outside.

It's not as if I was ignoring you, I knew your outside, but I was worried that if I came and led you, it might become fought or it might be assumed to be fought.

And this was the last year of his life, and that's the only thing that we know. That he allowed and encouraged the jama'a in Ramadan.

Now, we do not know how many rakahs he prayed, it's not mentioned, but we go by the asal of Aisha in Sahih Bukhari, that the processum never prayed in Ramadan or out of Ramadan more than 11 rakahs.

Now, the processum, therefore, did not establish it as a regular Sunnah. So in the reign of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, nothing happened.

He did not do anything, and the people prayed on their own. In the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab, the people would come to the masjid every single night, and small groups would begin to pray by themselves,

ibn al-Khattab would lead one jama'a, ibn al-Masrood would lead another jama'a, and they're all praying small, small groups in the masjid.

And Umar ibn al-Khattab came one day, and he saw all of these small groups in the masjid, and he said, we should gather all of these and make them one, rather than each one having his own.

And so, he commanded that, obey, because obey was our processum, said he is akraukum, he is the most knowledgeable of the Khaira.

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