Why was not making up missed prayers mentioned in the Quran or Sunnah, and how did making up missed prayers come about, considering that if a Muslim does not make up their obligatory duties in this life, they will make them up or be punished for them in the Hereafter?
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The issue of making up prayers intentionally missed is a matter of scholarly disagreement. The most important pieces of evidence cited by those who affirm the obligation of making them up are: the command for the sleeping person and the forgetful person to make up the prayer, thus the one who intentionally missed it is even more obliged; and that prayer is a debt owed by an individual. This view is held by the majority of scholars, and it is the most cautious and absolving for one's conscience.
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