Missed Salah

cookie_monster · **Missed Salah -** 08-29-2007

assalamalikum

I have a question regards to missing salah. I missed a lot of salah in my life time. I am about 22. How would I go abouts to make up the salah? I cannot even remeber the number of salah I missed. Also if I do have to make them up is it fajr then the amount of units. Probably around 500 or something.

ansar.tajudeen · **Re: Missed Salah -** 08-31-2007

walaikum salaam brother,

alhamdulilah for u r interest in missed salah

the same question i also had ..i asked our imaam he said whenever v r free v can pray,and in the special days like mehraj(rajab month),shabhai barat(shaban month),lailatul kadhar(ramadan month),in all these days v can pray our missed prayers in our life,..

jazak allah hairun

Janaan · **Re: Missed Salah -** 08-31-2007

From Islamonline:

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In light of these and other evidence, the vast majority of scholars and imams are of the opinion that one must make up for all of the prayers one has missed in life, no matter how many they are. So according to them, you should make up for all of these prayers. One of the best ways to do this—as has been suggested by one scholar—is to pray with each fard that you perform another fard in lieu of what you missed in the past. Thus, for instance, before or after praying Zuhr, pray another four rak`ahs of Zuhr as qadha’, and pray another four rak`ahs of `Asr every time you pray `Asr; you should continue to do this until such time that you can be pretty sure that you have made up for all of the missed prayers.

However, the above view has been rejected by scholars such as Imam Ibn Taymiyah, Shawkani, and Ibn Hazm. They are of the view that a person who has deliberately missed his prayers can never make up for them. Therefore, the only option left for him is to repent, ask forgiveness of Allah, and do lots of good works; by doing so he can hope to receive Allah’s mercy.

I follow the first opinion, while my husband follows the opinion of Ibn Hazm (ra).

First, I would start to pray 5 times a day. Once you have established that practice, I would estimate in years the salat you've missed, and then pray 2 of each prayer, your current and one missed, for that number of years. So, for x years, you would pray 2 fajrs, 2 zuhrs, 2 asrs, 2 maghribs and 2 ishas a day.

Md Mashud · **Re: Missed Salah -** 08-31-2007

For missed salah's, there are 2 opinions (correct me if Im wrong) - one is that you can in retrospect pray them and hope they get accepted and that of which you should pray for Allahs forgiveness for the prayers and that you cannot retrospectively pray them.

I believe in the former, which the sister above has explained well as to how to go about it.

kh@led · **Re: Missed Salah -** 10-19-2007

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In light of these and other evidence, the vast majority of scholars and imams are of the opinion that one must make up for all of the prayers one has missed in life, no matter how many they are. So according to them, you should make up for all of these prayers. One of the best ways to do this—as has been suggested by one scholar—is to pray with each fard that you perform another fard in lieu of what you missed in the past. Thus, for instance, before or after praying Zuhr, pray another four rak`ahs of Zuhr as qadha’, and pray another four rak`ahs of `Asr every time you pray `Asr; you should continue to do this until such time that you can be pretty sure that you have made up for all of the missed prayers.

Someone I know follows the above method and I think its an excellent idea! I am planning to do the same for my missed salats too.

Allah(swt) is the most knowledgable, most understandable, most merciful and inshallah he will forgive us and accept the our good deeds.

------ · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-12-2007

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In light of these and other evidence, the vast majority of scholars and imams are of the opinion that one must make up for all of the prayers one has missed in life, no matter how many they are. So according to them, you should make up for all of these prayers. One of the best ways to do this—as has been suggested by one scholar—is to pray with each fard that you perform another fard in lieu of what you missed in the past. Thus, for instance, before or after praying Zuhr, pray another four rak`ahs of Zuhr as qadha’, and pray another four rak`ahs of `Asr every time you pray `Asr; you should continue to do this until such time that you can be pretty sure that you have made up for all of the missed prayers.

However, the above view has been rejected by scholars such as Imam Ibn Taymiyah, Shawkani, and Ibn Hazm. They are of the view that a person who has deliberately missed his prayers can never make up for them. Therefore, the only option left for him is to repent, ask forgiveness of Allah, and do lots of good works; by doing so he can hope to receive Allah’s mercy.

Jazaak Allaah Khayr, needed this to show someone!

H@fiz Aziz · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-24-2007

you can make them up after for ex. reading zuhr then reading one of your missed salaat this is called kaza.

(¯¨›Åÿê§hå‹¨¯) · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-24-2007

Assalam o Allikum
Very intrsting thread... which brought me to the question regarding converts... do we make up the prayers we have missed since converting and maybe incorrect prayers due to learning or does it include to make them up from befor converting?

Talib_Rayhan · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-25-2007

^^ Good question Sister, I too would like to know the answer to that, as I know I have never prayed 100% correctly due to learning, Insha'Allah soon come

Talib_Rayhan · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-25-2007

^^ Good question Sister, I too would like to know the answer to that, as I know I have never prayed 100% correctly due to learning, Insha'Allah soon come

Talib_Rayhan · 03:05 AM

Sorry for the duplicate posts, I havent a clue what I did

(¯¨›Åÿê§hå‹¨¯) · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-25-2007

Assalam o Allikum
inshaAllah maybe someone with knowledge of this area could give us some guidance

al_islam · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-25-2007

I always thought that you just prayed on extra salah for each prayer, but just the Farz.

For Isha you pray the short version: 4 Farz 2 Sunnah 3 Witr.

Thats what I was taught anyways.

Janaan · **Re: Missed Salah -** 12-25-2007

In my understanding, converts should make up prayers that were prayed incorrectly or missed since converting. Before we said la ilaha il Allah, Muhammadur rasul Allah, salat was not obligatory upon us, so there's nothing to make up.

I haven't seen any evidence (or any fatwa for that matter) addressing this issue, especially in materials for converts, so I'm just assuming it's a non issue, ie. we don't have to make it up.

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cookie_monster Limited Member Status: Offline Posts: 2 Reputation: 5 Rep Power: 0 Join Date: Aug 2007 Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Missed Salah - 08-29-2007 assalamalikum I have a question regards to missing salah. I missed a lot of salah in my life time. I am about 22. How would I go abouts to make up the salah? I cannot even remeber the number of salah I missed. Also if I do have to make them up is it fajr then the amount of units. Probably around 500 or something.

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ansar.tajudeen LI Senior Member Status: Offline Posts: 181 Reputation: 1562 Rep Power: 12 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Chennai, India Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 08-31-2007 walaikum salaam brother, alhamdulilah for u r interest in missed salah the same question i also had ..i asked our imaam he said whenever v r free v can pray,and in the special days like mehraj(rajab month),shabhai barat(shaban month),lailatul kadhar(ramadan month),in all these days v can pray our missed prayers in our life,.. jazak allah hairun __________________ Valuable-Islamic-Pictures CLICK HERE

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Md Mashud Account Disabled Status: Offline Posts: 515 Reputation: 2424 Rep Power: 0 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 08-31-2007 For missed salah's, there are 2 opinions (correct me if Im wrong) - one is that you can in retrospect pray them and hope they get accepted and that of which you should pray for Allahs forgiveness for the prayers and that you cannot retrospectively pray them. I believe in the former, which the sister above has explained well as to how to go about it.

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H@fiz Aziz LI Hafiz/Helper Status: Offline Posts: 419 Reputation: 912 Rep Power: 14 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: ALLAHS EARTH/Universe/Chicago Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-24-2007 you can make them up after for ex. reading zuhr then reading one of your missed salaat this is called kaza. __________________ Kalimah Taiyyab Declaration of Faith Laa ilaaha illa-llahoo Muhammadur-Rasool-ullah "There Is no diety except Allaah. Muhammad (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) is the Messenger of Allaah."

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(¯¨›Åÿê§hå‹¨¯) LI Oldskool Status: Offline Posts: 1,053 Reputation: 5064 Rep Power: 14 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In Sorrow. Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-24-2007 Assalam o Allikum Very intrsting thread... which brought me to the question regarding converts... do we make up the prayers we have missed since converting and maybe incorrect prayers due to learning or does it include to make them up from befor converting? __________________

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Talib_Rayhan LI Senior Member Status: Offline Posts: 120 Reputation: 441 Rep Power: 6 Join Date: Dec 2007 Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-25-2007 ^^ Good question Sister, I too would like to know the answer to that, as I know I have never prayed 100% correctly due to learning, Insha'Allah soon come __________________ www.fisabeelillah.com/forum - Insha'Allah you can take time to show your support "I was taught never deny the starvin' a hot meal cos a plate can change a persons lives" - Big Lou

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Talib_Rayhan LI Senior Member Status: Offline Posts: 120 Reputation: 441 Rep Power: 6 Join Date: Dec 2007 Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-25-2007 ^^ Good question Sister, I too would like to know the answer to that, as I know I have never prayed 100% correctly due to learning, Insha'Allah soon come __________________ www.fisabeelillah.com/forum - Insha'Allah you can take time to show your support "I was taught never deny the starvin' a hot meal cos a plate can change a persons lives" - Big Lou

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Talib_Rayhan LI Senior Member Status: Offline Posts: 120 Reputation: 441 Rep Power: 6 Join Date: Dec 2007 Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-25-2007 Sorry for the duplicate posts, I havent a clue what I did __________________ www.fisabeelillah.com/forum - Insha'Allah you can take time to show your support "I was taught never deny the starvin' a hot meal cos a plate can change a persons lives" - Big Lou Last edited by Talib_Rayhan; 12-25-2007 at 03:05 AM.. Reason: Duplicates

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(¯¨›Åÿê§hå‹¨¯) LI Oldskool Status: Offline Posts: 1,053 Reputation: 5064 Rep Power: 14 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In Sorrow. Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-25-2007 Assalam o Allikum inshaAllah maybe someone with knowledge of this area could give us some guidance __________________

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al_islam Account Disabled Status: Offline Posts: 191 Reputation: 323 Rep Power: 0 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: London Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-25-2007 I always thought that you just prayed on extra salah for each prayer, but just the Farz. For Isha you pray the short version: 4 Farz 2 Sunnah 3 Witr. Thats what I was taught anyways.

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Janaan Salaam! Status: Offline Posts: 448 Reputation: 2486 Rep Power: 17 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Minne-snow-da Gender: Way of Life: Muslim	Re: Missed Salah - 12-25-2007 In my understanding, converts should make up prayers that were prayed incorrectly or missed since converting. Before we said la ilaha il Allah, Muhammadur rasul Allah, salat was not obligatory upon us, so there's nothing to make up. I haven't seen any evidence (or any fatwa for that matter) addressing this issue, especially in materials for converts, so I'm just assuming it's a non issue, ie. we don't have to make it up. __________________ Ya Latif! Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth...(24:35) Helpful links for Converts