Is it Sunnah to read سُبْحَانَ الْمَلِكِ الْقُدُّوْسِ three times after Witr Ṣalāh throughout the year or only in Ramaḍān?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Answer:
It is Sunnah to read سُبْحَانَ الْمَلِكِ الْقُدُّوْسِ three times after Witr Ṣalāh throughout the year.[1] This was the general habit of the Prophet ﷺ who would raise and prolong his voice the third time as reported in several authentic narrations.[2]
Allah knows best
Yusuf Shabbir
27 Jumādā al-Thāniyah 1437 / 5 April 2016
Approved by: Mufti Shabbir Ahmad Sahib
Footnotes
[1] Tabyīn al-Ḥaqāʾiq (1: 170); al-Mugnī (2: 122); Zād al-Maʿād (1: 326); al-Majmūʿ (4: 16); Sharḥ al-Zurqānī ʿAlā al-Mawāhib (11: 13).
[2] Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah (6873); Musnad Aḥmad (15354, 15355); Sunan Abū Dāwūd (1430); Sunan al-Nasāʾī (1699); al-Mustadrak (1009).