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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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I remembered in the morning that I had not performed the witr prayer last night, so I made up the witr after the Duha prayer. Is my action correct?

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. This listener says: I slept and did not perform the witr, and I did not wake up until the time of the Fajr prayer. So I got up and prayed the Fajr prayer, then I went to my work. Then I remembered that I had not performed the witr, so I made up the witr, and that was after the Duha prayer. Is my making up of the witr at that time valid? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Yes. If a person sleeps through an obligatory prayer, he prays it when he remembers it. When he wakes up, he prays it at any time. Likewise, if he forgets it, he prays it when he remembers it at any time. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps through it, let him pray it when he remembers it.من نسي صلاة أو نام عنها فليصلها إذا ذكرها
Sunan ad-Darimi 2:45
There is no expiation for it except that. As for the witr, if a person leaves it from the night, he makes it up in the Duha time, between the rising of the sun and the entry of the time of the Zuhr prayer. All of this is the time for making up the witr that he missed from the night. He makes it up, but he makes it even in number. So if he used to perform witr with three rak'ahs, he makes it four with two taslims. If he used to perform witr with five, he makes it six with three taslims, and so on. If he used to perform witr with eleven, he prays twelve rak'ahs in the Duha time, two by two, with a taslim after every two rak'ahs. This is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do when he missed the witr from the night. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، تذكرت في الصباح أني لم أوتر الليلة الماضية، فقمت بقضاء الوتر بعد صلاة الضحى، فهل فعلي صحيح؟ — youtube.com

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