Sleeping through the Fajr prayer and making it up upon waking for work
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who sleeps through the Fajr prayer and then prays it when he wakes up for work, and this continues with him? What do you advise him?
Answer:
I seek refuge in Allah from this action. It is not permissible for him to sleep through the Fajr prayer and not pray it until he gets up for work. His prayer is not accepted. He has taken it out of its time without an excuse. His prayer is not accepted.[An-Nisa 4:103] That is, it is obligatory at its appointed times. He must fear Allah and perform the prayer in its time. He should not return to sleep. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who sleeps through the Fajr prayer and then prays it when he wakes up for work, and this continues with him? What do you advise him?
Answer:
I seek refuge in Allah from this action. It is not permissible for him to sleep through the Fajr prayer and not pray it until he gets up for work. His prayer is not accepted. He has taken it out of its time without an excuse. His prayer is not accepted.
Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء في العزل — islamhouse.com (1:00:36)
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