regarding making up the Fajr prayer: Is it made up at any time of the obligatory prayers, or not?
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The questioner : He asks about making up the Fajr prayer: Is it made up at any time of the obligatory prayers, or not?
The Shaykh : It appears to me that specifying the Fajr prayer means that he is sleeping.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Regarding the Fajr prayer, we tell him that it is not permissible for him to make it a habit to sleep through the Fajr prayer. If he gets up from sleep, he prays it. The most correct of the opinions of the scholars is that delaying the prayer from its time without an excuse necessitates the invalidity of the prayer, even if it is prayed, and that it is not accepted. This is because every time-bound act of worship is not valid before its time or after it, except for a Shari'ah excuse.
Based on this, we say that if you delayed the Fajr prayer until the sun rose out of laziness and negligence, then your prayer is not accepted from you. However, if you left it because you were unable to get up from sleep, either because there was no one to wake you, or because you were so deeply asleep that you could not manage to get up, then there is no blame on you for praying it after the time.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : It appears to me that specifying the Fajr prayer means that he is sleeping.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Regarding the Fajr prayer, we tell him that it is not permissible for him to make it a habit to sleep through the Fajr prayer. If he gets up from sleep, he prays it. The most correct of the opinions of the scholars is that delaying the prayer from its time without an excuse necessitates the invalidity of the prayer, even if it is prayed, and that it is not accepted. This is because every time-bound act of worship is not valid before its time or after it, except for a Shari'ah excuse.
Based on this, we say that if you delayed the Fajr prayer until the sun rose out of laziness and negligence, then your prayer is not accepted from you. However, if you left it because you were unable to get up from sleep, either because there was no one to wake you, or because you were so deeply asleep that you could not manage to get up, then there is no blame on you for praying it after the time.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.