Making up prayers whose number is unknown
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve and protect you) that if a person leaves some days of fasting, he estimates the number of those days and then makes them up. If a person leaves some prayers, is the ruling the same, such that he makes them up?
Answer:
Yes, if a person leaves prayers and does not know their number, he should make an effort to estimate them and pray them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve and protect you) that if a person leaves some days of fasting, he estimates the number of those days and then makes them up. If a person leaves some prayers, is the ruling the same, such that he makes them up?
Answer:
Yes, if a person leaves prayers and does not know their number, he should make an effort to estimate them and pray them. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل والفتنة نوعان : فتنة الشبهات وهي أعظم الفتنتين وفتنة الشهوات — islamhouse.com (1:12:11)
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