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The author of the Fihrist, an-Nadim, speaks of the obligation of the followers of Mani to daily offer "four or seven prayers (salawat)". He writes onpage 790:

"It is that a man shall rise and wash himself with water, which is either running or not. Then he shall face the supreme brightness while standing, and then bow down, saying while in prostration, "Blessed be  our guide the Paraclete, the Apostle of Light, blessed be his guardian angels and praised be his shining hosts." This he says while he prostrates himself.  Then he shall arise, for he must not tarry in his prostration, but stand errect. After that he shall say in a second prostration, "Praise be to thee O, thou shining one, Mani our guide, source of light and branch of the living, the great tree all of which gives healing." Then during the third prostration he shall say, "I bow down and render praise with a pure heart and a trueful tongue to the great deity, father of the lights and their substance; praised and blessed art thou, and thy greatness in its entirity, as well as to those blessed ones who know thee and whom thou hast called upon. Let the praised among thy hosts glorify thee, thy jsutice, thy word, thy greatness, and thy favor, for verily thou art a deity who is altogether Truth, Life, and Righteousness."Then during the fourth prostration he shall say, "I render praise and bow down to all of the deities and to all of the light shining angels and to all of the lights and all of the hosts which have sprung from the Great Deity."Then during the fifth prostration he shall say, "I bow down and give praise to the great hosts and to the shining deities, who by their wisdom have pierced and driven out the darkness, subduing it."Then he shall say during the sixth, "I bow down and offer praise to the Father of Greatness, the mighty and shining, who has come from those who have knowledge. " and in this same manner until the twelfth prostration. If he completes ten prayers, he starts another prayer in which there is praise; it is unnecessary for us to record it."