Explanation of the Book of Friday Prayer and the Two Festivals-08b

The reciter: Musaddad narrated to us, Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us from 'Ubayd Allah, Nafi' narrated to me from 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: .

The Shaykh : This is so that he may make the prayers he has already performed an odd number. If he makes the last of his night prayers an odd number, and then it happens that he gets up to pray, what does he do? Some scholars say he breaks the first odd number, so he prays one rak'ah, then prays two rak'ahs, then makes it an odd number. This is not correct, because there are intervals between the rak'ah that breaks the odd number and the first rak'ah, such as sleep, eating, and drinking. How can this rak'ah be built upon the first rak'ah? Furthermore, according to this opinion, how many odd numbers would there be in this night? Three times. He would make it an odd number three times. This is a weak opinion, even though some of the Companions used to do it.
The second opinion is that he prays two rak'ahs and makes it an odd number when he finishes the tahajjud. This is also not correct, because it necessitates that there be two odd numbers in one night.
The third opinion, which is the correct one, is that he prays two rak'ahs, two rak'ahs, until the dawn appears. This does not contradict the hadith because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say, "Do not pray after the odd number," so that we would say, "If you get up at night, do not pray." Rather, he said . This man made it an odd number before he slept, but it happened that he got up and prayed two rak'ahs, two rak'ahs, and did not make it an odd number.