The ruling on one who intentionally sleeps through the Zuhr and 'Asr prayers and combines them before sunset
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Question:
May Allah reward you and make your knowledge beneficial. The sender, Ahmad Mahshil Buthri, says in his first question, among a number of questions: In our village, there is a small mosque where a person calls the adhan. This person does voluntary works, including fasting every Monday and Thursday, staying up in the night as much as Allah has written for him, and praying the Duha prayer. But the problem, Honorable Shaykh, is that when this man fasts on Mondays and Thursdays, he prays Fajr and then sleeps, and he does not wake up until the sun is reddening, so he prays Zuhr and 'Asr combined. What is your advice for this man who wants more reward but is losing much reward in the obligatory prayers? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This is not just losing reward; rather, he has done something forbidden, which is taking the prayers out of their time. It is forbidden, and it involves a great sin; because Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[An-Nisa 4:103] meaning they are obligatory at specific times, so it is not permissible to take them out of their times except for a legitimate religious excuse, such as one who wants to combine the two prayers, and it is permissible for him to combine them, or one who is overcome by sleep without intending it or doing it on purpose, but rather he was overcome and did not wake up, so he prays when his excuse is removed, by the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): Sunan ad-Darimi 2:45
As for this man who intentionally sleeps and does not get up until the sun sets, and he leaves the daytime prayers and prays them after their time has passed, this is intentional delaying of the prayer from its time, so he is sinful and is doing something forbidden. Some of the precise scholars hold that the prayer is not valid, so he must repent to Allah and be careful to perform them. And his fasting voluntarily while leaving the obligatory is a state of great loss due to a lack of understanding of the religion of Allah, the Exalted. Yes?
May Allah reward you and make your knowledge beneficial. The sender, Ahmad Mahshil Buthri, says in his first question, among a number of questions: In our village, there is a small mosque where a person calls the adhan. This person does voluntary works, including fasting every Monday and Thursday, staying up in the night as much as Allah has written for him, and praying the Duha prayer. But the problem, Honorable Shaykh, is that when this man fasts on Mondays and Thursdays, he prays Fajr and then sleeps, and he does not wake up until the sun is reddening, so he prays Zuhr and 'Asr combined. What is your advice for this man who wants more reward but is losing much reward in the obligatory prayers? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This is not just losing reward; rather, he has done something forbidden, which is taking the prayers out of their time. It is forbidden, and it involves a great sin; because Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًاWhoever forgets a prayer or sleeps through it, let him pray it when he remembers it. There is no expiation for it except that.
من نسي صلاة أو نام عنها فليصلها إذا ذكرها، لا كفارة لها إلا ذلك.As for this man who intentionally sleeps and does not get up until the sun sets, and he leaves the daytime prayers and prays them after their time has passed, this is intentional delaying of the prayer from its time, so he is sinful and is doing something forbidden. Some of the precise scholars hold that the prayer is not valid, so he must repent to Allah and be careful to perform them. And his fasting voluntarily while leaving the obligatory is a state of great loss due to a lack of understanding of the religion of Allah, the Exalted. Yes?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5262- حكم من ينام متعمدا عن صلاتي الظهر والعصر ويجمعهما قبيل الغروب - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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