What is the ruling on delaying the prayer beyond its time?
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Question:
We ask your permission for this call from our brother Abu Khalid from Dammam. Please, my brother Abu Khalid. Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings. Peace and Allah's mercy. Movements. How are you, Shaykh Salih? May Allah welcome you. Shaykh, I have a question regarding delaying the prayer after its time has passed. What is the ruling? I wish you would speak on this same topic. Thank you.
Answer:
It is not permissible to delay the prayer beyond its time, except for one who intends to combine it with the subsequent time. It is permissible for him to combine them for a valid legal excuse, delaying the first prayer and praying it with the second, as in travel, as in illness, or as in rain between the two 'Isha' prayers. These are the excuses for combining; he combines if one of them occurs for him between the two prayers.
As for taking it out of its time without an excuse, this is a waste of it, may Allah protect us. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saidSahih Muslim 684c meaning that sleep overtook him regarding it, so let him pray it when he remembers it. He prays it when he wakes up or when he remembers it. There is no expiation for it except that. He did not mention one who delayed it intentionally, which indicates that it does not suffice for him if he repeats it after delaying it intentionally without an excuse. It does not suffice for him because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not order him to repeat it. Rather, he must repent to Allah the Mighty and Majestic and be diligent in observing it. In the hadith Sunan Ibn Majah 694Sahih (Darussalam) they said: "Whoever misses it," meaning whose time passed without an excuse, may Allah protect us, his deed is nullified. This is in the authentic hadith, and the meaning of missing it is missing its time without an excuse.
The danger is severe in this, and the Muslim must fear Allah. He said, Exalted is He:[An-Nisa 4:103] a prescribed time. He said, peace and blessings be upon him: So it is not permissible for a person to delay the prayer beyond its time without a valid legal excuse. Yes.
We ask your permission for this call from our brother Abu Khalid from Dammam. Please, my brother Abu Khalid. Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings. Peace and Allah's mercy. Movements. How are you, Shaykh Salih? May Allah welcome you. Shaykh, I have a question regarding delaying the prayer after its time has passed. What is the ruling? I wish you would speak on this same topic. Thank you.
Answer:
It is not permissible to delay the prayer beyond its time, except for one who intends to combine it with the subsequent time. It is permissible for him to combine them for a valid legal excuse, delaying the first prayer and praying it with the second, as in travel, as in illness, or as in rain between the two 'Isha' prayers. These are the excuses for combining; he combines if one of them occurs for him between the two prayers.
As for taking it out of its time without an excuse, this is a waste of it, may Allah protect us. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said
He who forgets the prayer, or he slept (and it was omitted)
من نسي صلاة أو نام عنهاfor whoever misses the 'Asr prayer, all his good deeds will be in vain.
من فاتته صلاة العصر حبط عمله.The danger is severe in this, and the Muslim must fear Allah. He said, Exalted is He:
Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَPray the prayer at its time
صل الصلاة لوقتها
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم تأخير الصلاة عن وقتها؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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