Some scholars permit making up missed prayers based on the hadith (So the debt of Allah is more deserving of being paid off). What is your opinion on this?
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The questioner : Regarding making up missed prayers, making up missed prayers for the one who did so intentionally.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Some scholars permit it based on the hadith:Sunan Abi Dawud 3310Sahih (Al-Albani), what is the correct interpretation of the hadith, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : What? What?
The questioner : The correct interpretation of the hadith.
The Shaykh : The correct interpretationSunan Abi Dawud 3310Sahih (Al-Albani) came in the context of Hajj.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And Hajj is not like prayer, for Hajj has a first time but no last time, meaning if a person who is able to perform Hajj does not perform it in a certain year, and then performs it after several years, the obligation has been lifted from him.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : As for prayer, the matter is not like Hajj; because Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:[An-Nisa 4:103].
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So it has a first time and a last time, so this is called an analogy with a difference.
The questioner : An analogy with a difference.
The Shaykh : Meaning, an analogy of Hajj, which has no last time, to prayer, which has a last time.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So it is an analogy with a difference, and what is like that is an invalid analogy.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Some scholars permit it based on the hadith:
So the debt due to Allah is the one which most deserves to be paid.
فدَينُ الله أحقُّ أن يُقضىThe Shaykh : What? What?
The questioner : The correct interpretation of the hadith.
The Shaykh : The correct interpretation
So the debt due to Allah is the one which most deserves to be paid.
فدَينُ الله أحقُّ أن يُقضىThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And Hajj is not like prayer, for Hajj has a first time but no last time, meaning if a person who is able to perform Hajj does not perform it in a certain year, and then performs it after several years, the obligation has been lifted from him.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : As for prayer, the matter is not like Hajj; 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 مَوْقُوتًاThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So it has a first time and a last time, so this is called an analogy with a difference.
The questioner : An analogy with a difference.
The Shaykh : Meaning, an analogy of Hajj, which has no last time, to prayer, which has a last time.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So it is an analogy with a difference, and what is like that is an invalid analogy.
The questioner: Yes.
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