(a.), the invocation of God’s blessing upon the Prophet Muḥammad.

The word has many applications, but commonly refers to the section of the tas̲h̲ahhud [q.v.] in the ritual ṣalāt [q.v.], following the taḥiyya (“greeting”) and ¶ s̲h̲ahāda [q.v.], in which the worshipper recites the ṣalāt ʿalā ’l-nabī ( taṣliya being derived from this sense of “performing the ṣalāt ”, perhaps). One typical formulation of the taṣliya is known as al-ṣalawāt al-ibrāhīmiyya , see ṣalāt . III. B. A taṣliya is also a part of the response to the ad̲h̲ān [q.v.], also known as the duʿāʾ al-wasīla the “prayer of medi…