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How do I make up the missed rak'ahs in prayer if I only caught the last rak'ah, and what should I recite in them, and does the same ruling apply to the Maghrib and Fajr prayers?

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The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "When the prayer has been announced, do not come to it running, but come walking, and عليكم السكينة (with tranquility and solemnity). So, whatever you catch, pray, and whatever you miss, complete." The latecomer (masbuq) joins the Imam and completes his prayer after the Imam's salutation. The word "فأتموا" (complete) indicates that what the latecomer prayed with the Imam is the beginning of his prayer. So, whoever catches two rak'ahs of 'Isha, Dhuhr, or 'Asr with the Imam, he should perform two rak'ahs, reciting only Al-Fatihah in them. And whoever catches one rak'ah of Maghrib with the Imam, he should perform two rak'ahs: in the first, he recites Al-Fatihah and a surah and then sits, and in the second, only Al-Fatihah. And whoever catches one rak'ah of 'Isha, Dhuhr, or 'Asr with the Imam, he should make up three rak'ahs: the first with Al-Fatihah and a surah and then sits, and the second and third with Al-Fatihah only, without sitting between them.

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