H ow is S alaat-us- T aubah P erformed?

Alee ( ) who said that Aboo Bakr ( )told him
that he heard the Messenger of Allaah ( ) say:
There is no servant who commits a sin and then he
purifies himself (wudoo')and then prays two rakaahs
and then seeks forgiveness of Allaah except that
Allaah forgives him.
[Ahmad, Aboo dawood eng trans. Vol. 1 #1516 and others]
Taken from THE THREE ABANONED PRAYERS by
Shaykh 'Adnaan Aali 'Uroor
Hadith - Bukhari 8.800B, Narrated Ikrima from IbnAbbas
Allah's Apostle said,"When a slave (of Allah) commits illegal sexual
intercourse, he is not a believer at the time of committing it; and if
he steals, he is not a believerat the time of stealing; and if he
drinks an alcoholic drink, when he is not a believer at the time of
drinking it; and he is not a believer whenhe commits a murder."
'Ikrima said: I asked Ibn Abbas, "How is faith taken away from him?"
He said, Like this," by clasping his hands and then separating them,
and added, "But if he repents, faith returns to him like this," by
claspinghis hands again.
A named condition for the forgiveness of Allah (swt) is the returning
to obedience in the matter...
The Noble Qur'an - Az-Zumar 39:54
And turn in repentance and in obedience with true Faith (Islâmic
Monotheism) to your Lord and submit to Him, (in Islâm), before the
torment comes upon you,then you will not be helped.
The Noble Qur'an - An-Nisa 4:17-18
Allâh accepts only the repentance of those whodo evil in ignorance and
foolishness and repent soon afterwards; it is they to whom Allâh will
forgive and Allâh is Ever All­Knower, All­Wise.
And of no effect is the repentance of those whocontinue to do evil
deedsuntil death faces one of them and he says: "Now Irepent;" nor of
those who die while they are disbelievers. For them Wehave prepared a
painful torment.