SALAH · TOPIC 9 OF 12
Making Up Missed Prayers (Qaḍā’)
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Maintaining correct order (tartīb) between a missed prayer and a current prescribed prayer, as well as between missed prayers themselves, is necessary (mustaḥaqq). However, this order is no long mandatory in one of three situations:
- If the recommended time [of the current prescribed prayer] is about to expire [in which case one prays the current prescribed prayer before making up the missed prayer]
- Forgetfulness (meaning if one forgets that he missed any prayer(s) and therefore prays the current obligatory prayer, he does not have to make up that current obligatory prayer upon remembering his missed prayers).
- If the number of missed prescribed prayers, excluding witr, becomes six [or more]
It is not necessary [in the intention of making up a missed prayer] to specify the exact prayer; rather, it is sufficient to intend a Ẓuhr or an ‘Īsha’ that one owes.