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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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How to make up missed prayers for one who abandoned them due to an excuse or intentionally

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Question:
How does a woman make up the prayers and fasts she missed due to a valid legal excuse? How does she make up what she missed?

Answer:
If her excuse was menstruation or post-natal bleeding, she does not have to make up the prayers; she only has to make up the fast, the fast of Ramadan. As for if her excuse was sleep and she woke up, she makes it up when she wakes up from her sleep. As for if she was insane and then Allah restored her intellect, she does not have to make it up. As for if she was ill, it is obligatory for her to pray while ill, even on her side or lying on her back. If she was negligent out of ignorance and did not pray because of the illness, she makes them up in order, even in one time period, according to her ability, in order: Zuhr, 'Asr, Maghrib, 'Isha', Fajr, like that, in order.
Even in one time period, and in the morning or in the midday or at night, according to her ability. If she left it due to illness and she was ignorant that she prays while sitting or on her side, she makes it up. As for if she was negligent with the prayer and left it intentionally, she does not have to make it up; she has to repent. And so, if a man does not pray and then repents, he does not have to make it up; he has to repent to Allah, return to Allah, and be upright in the prayer. And what was missed before that which he left intentionally out of negligence, repentance is sufficient for that, and repentance is enough for him, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 9648 - كيفية القضاء لمن ترك الصلاة لعذر أو متعمداً - نور على الدرب — youtube.com

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