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What is the ruling on combining the five daily prayers when one is sleeping?

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The questioner : The questioner says:

The Shaykh : This question is accepted as a comment on our answer; otherwise, we would not have accepted it from you, because the way to submit questions is in writing. However, there is no harm in accepting it from you because it is a comment. The one who combines the prayers at a specific time when he is sleeping and prays the five prayers of the day is as if he did not pray what he prayed, except for the last 'Isha' prayer. This is because the correct position with us is that if a person delays an obligatory prayer from its time without an excuse, it is not accepted from him, even if he prays it a thousand times. I hope this serves as a warning to you. If a person delays one obligatory prayer from its time without an excuse, it is not accepted from him, even if he prays it a thousand times. Why? Because Allah has specified the times, from such a time to such a time. If you pray within that time, you have fulfilled the command as Allah intended. But if you take it out and delay it, you have prayed it outside its time. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
He who did any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.من عمل عملا ليس عليه أمرنا فهو رد
Sahih Muslim 1718b
. So if you delay the prayer until after its time without a legitimate religious excuse, you have done an act for which there is no command from Allah or His Messenger, and it will be rejected. Those who combine the prayers when they are sleeping are not accepted; their prayers are not accepted, except for the 'Isha' prayer if they prayed it in its time. As for the four other prayers, they have abandoned them because they took them out of their time without an excuse. As for the one who has an excuse, such as a person who is sleeping and has no one to wake him, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever sleeps through a prayer or forgets it,
he should observe it when he remembers it ; there is no expiation for it except that.فليصلها إذا ذكرها لا كفارة لها إلا ذلك
Sunan Abi Dawud 442Sahih (Al-Albani)
." For example, one hour. And now the time has ended, because we would like the time for this hadith to be just one hour. And in what is less, with understanding and knowledge, there is sufficiency. May Allah grant success, and all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 2 - 13 - دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام للعام 1402 هـ - الدرس الثاني - الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين — youtube.com (12:11)

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