Ruling on making up the prayer for one who fainted
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What is the ruling for a person who fainted for four days or more due to a blood clot, and after regaining consciousness, the clot returned? He asks whether he must make up the prayers he missed or what he should do?
The correct view is that there is no obligation to make up prayers for one who fainted, provided it was not by his own choice.
The questioner: I mean: even if it was due to anesthesia?The Shaykh: No.
I told you: If it was not by his own choice. This is so that you understand that if he fainted by his own choice, he must make up the prayers. Anesthesia causes one to faint by his own choice; meaning, if a person is given anesthesia and does not regain consciousness until a day or two later, he must make up the prayers. But if it was not by his own choice, such as a blood clot or a shock, as you mentioned, or falling from a wall or something similar, he does not have to make up the prayers, except for fasting. Fasting must be made up, even if he was unconscious; because fasting is not like prayer, which is repeated every day. For this reason, the menstruating woman was commanded to make up fasting but was not commanded to make up prayer.
The correct view is that there is no obligation to make up prayers for one who fainted, provided it was not by his own choice.
The questioner: I mean: even if it was due to anesthesia?The Shaykh: No.
I told you: If it was not by his own choice. This is so that you understand that if he fainted by his own choice, he must make up the prayers. Anesthesia causes one to faint by his own choice; meaning, if a person is given anesthesia and does not regain consciousness until a day or two later, he must make up the prayers. But if it was not by his own choice, such as a blood clot or a shock, as you mentioned, or falling from a wall or something similar, he does not have to make up the prayers, except for fasting. Fasting must be made up, even if he was unconscious; because fasting is not like prayer, which is repeated every day. For this reason, the menstruating woman was commanded to make up fasting but was not commanded to make up prayer.