Shurūṭ al-Ṣalāh wa Arkānuhā

Enumerates the nine conditions, fourteen pillars, and eight obligations of the prayer in a clear list format, making it easy to memorize and teach from. A cornerstone fiqh text that gives students a precise structural understanding of salah before moving to longer fiqh manuals.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (1703–1792 CE) was born in the ʿUyaynah region of Najd, Arabia, and received his education in Medina, al-Aḥsāʾ, and Basra. Returning to Najd, he launched a reformist daʿwah calling Muslims back to pure tawḥīd and away from innovated practices he witnessed spreading through Muslim lands. His alliance with the ruler Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd established the first Saudi state and gave rise to a global Salafi reform movement. He authored over twenty works in creed, fiqh, and biography, of which Kitāb al-Tawḥīd remains the most widely studied.

• Nine conditions (shurut) for the prayer to be valid
• Fourteen pillars (arkan) that are obligatory within the prayer itself
• Eight obligations (wajibat) whose omission requires a prostration of forgetfulness
• Ritual purity (taharah) from major and minor impurity as a prerequisite
• Removing physical impurity (najasah) from body, clothing, and place
• Facing the qiblah (direction of the Kaabah)
• Covering the awrah appropriately
• Entering the prayer at its prescribed time
• Distinction between conditions, pillars, obligations, and recommended acts (sunan)