Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

Consistency in performing the Witr prayer at the beginning of the night

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A person wants to be consistent in performing the Witr prayer at the beginning of the night, taking precautions, because he does not trust that he will get up in the last part of the night. Is this contrary to the Sunnah, contrary to what is preferable, or is it considered a bid'ah (religious innovation)?

Answer:
He performs the Witr at the beginning of the night. If it happens that Allah grants him the ability to get up in the last part of the night, he prays whatever is easy for him, and the first Witr is sufficient; he does not repeat it a second time. There is not two Witr prayers in one night. However, if he hopes, or if it is more likely in his view, that he will get up in the last part of the night, he delays the Witr. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2702 -2802] المداومة على صلاة الوتر في أول الليل - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa