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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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I heard that you say that the witr prayer is made up during the day as witr, meaning if it is a man's custom to pray the witr in three rak'ahs and he did not pray it at night, he may

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The questioner : May Allah preserve you, O esteemed Shaykh. I heard that you say that the witr prayer is made up as witr, meaning if a man prays three rak'ahs of the night prayer and does not pray them at night, he makes them up the next day with the same number of rak'ahs, that is, three rak'ahs, not four. And there is a hadith in Sahih Muslim to the effect of
That the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to make up the night prayer in twelve rak'ahs أن الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يقضي صلاة الليل اثنا عشر ركعة
What is the evidence for making up the witr as witr? I ask for clarification, and may Allah reward you with good?

The Shaykh : The evidence is his statement (peace and blessings be upon him):
If any of you forgets the witr or sleeps through it, let him pray it when he remembers it or when he wakes up إذا نسي أحدكم الوتر أو نام عنه فليصله حين يذكره أو حين يستيقظ له
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) treated the witr in the same manner as the obligatory prayer. So the hadith narrated in the two Sahihs with the wording:
Whoever 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 حين يذكرها لا كفارة لها إلا ذلك
Whoever sleeps through the witr or forgets the witr, his ruling is the ruling of the obligatory prayer that he slept through or neglected. So in that case, he prays the witr at the time he remembers it or the time he wakes up. As for the hadith mentioned and attributed to Sahih Muslim, even though it is authentic and is from his actions (peace and blessings be upon him), there is no contradiction between the hadith you mentioned and this hadith, because this does not apply to one who forgot or slept, but rather to one for whom praying the night prayer was not feasible. So in that case, he compensates for what he missed of the night prayer, not due to the excuse of sleep and forgetfulness, but because it was not feasible for him. So he may pray twelve rak'ahs during the day.
Yes.
Source alathar.net

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