Missed and Made Up Prayers
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Is it permissible to perform the Tahiyat al-Masjid (mosque greeting) prayer during the disliked times (makruh times), specifically a few minutes before the Maghrib (sunset) call to prayer? And what are the disliked times for performing supererogatory (nafl) prayers? And what are the prayers that there is no harm in performing during these times?
What is the ruling on someone who joined congregational prayer after the first bowing (rukūʿ), and the imam made a mistake and prayed an extra bowing (rakʿah); does the follower complete the bowing (rakʿah) they missed after the prostration of forgetfulness (sujūd al-sahw), or is the extra bowing (rakʿah) prayed by the imam sufficient?
Is ghusl obligatory after masturbation that did not result in the emission of semen, and is ghusl for menstruation sufficient in its place, and what should be done regarding the prayers and fasts missed over three years if ghusl is obligatory?
What is the ruling on making up missed prayers if one is uncertain about the cessation of blood or yellowish-brown discharge before the usual time of purity?
Is ghusl required after the emission of semen upon watching pornographic movies, and is the fast of making up for last Ramadan valid if one fasted without performing ghusl in this situation, and is ghusl required for each instance of semen emission during the day, or is one ghusl sufficient?
Is it obligatory to make up for past prayers missed due to the inability to distinguish between purity and menstruation previously? And how is their number estimated and made up for? And is it obligatory to make up for prayers missed at the beginning of puberty due to not performing them during menstruation?
Is it permissible to make up missed prayers after the 'Asr prayer, citing the Hadith: "Whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps through it, its expiation is to pray it when he remembers it"? And should the present prayer be shortened when traveling if there are missed prayers? And should missed prayers be made up in full or shortened? And should audible prayers be recited audibly when making up missed prayers? And is it permissible to pray Witr while having many missed prayers?
Is all of Makkah a sacred precinct, and is prayer in it equal to one hundred thousand prayers, and are there any proofs for that?
What should I do, as I missed prayers while traveling because I feared the bus would leave without me, and then I lost the paper on which I recorded these prayers to make them up?
Do I have to make up missed prayers due to Istihada, the rulings of which I was unaware of, especially since I don't remember the exact number of days or how to make them up?
What is the ruling on the prayer of someone who made a mistake in Al-Fatiha out of forgetfulness and inattentiveness, and only realized this today? And how are the missed prayers to be made up, knowing that he does not know whether he made a mistake by pronouncing "an'amtu" with a dammah or not?
Is it permissible for someone who missed prayers due to sleep and woke up at Maghrib time to pray Maghrib first and then make up the missed prayers?
Is it permissible for the questioner to fast in the month of Ramadan, given that she was a kidney patient and her doctor prohibited her from fasting when she was 11 years old, and then she sometimes broke her fast after that and did not make up what she missed, and her current age is 18?
What is the ruling on one who vowed to maintain prayer, then abandoned it for a period exceeding nine months? Does this necessitate an expiation from him?
Should a person with intermittent urinary incontinence who missed a prayer, and its time has expired and the time for another prayer has begun, and he knows that the incontinence will decrease and may stop, hasten to perform the missed prayer and delay the current one, or delay both prayers, or hasten to perform them both?
Should one pray 'Ishā' then Maghrib, or the reverse, if Maghrib was missed and the time for 'Ishā' began and the 'Ishā' prayer was called?
Is it obligatory to repeat the prayers of past years, as well as the 'Isha prayer, due to prostration of forgetfulness (sujud al-sahw) resulting from obsessive whispering (waswasah), or is the person afflicted by waswasah not required to make up what they did based on ijtihad (independent reasoning), especially given the existence of other days of missed prayers that have not yet been completed?
Is a person considered to have abandoned prayer or an infidel if they missed the Dhuhr and Asr prayers due to staying up late, then performed them before the Maghrib prayer?
Is the prayer of one who missed three rak'ahs of the 'Asr communal prayer, then completed what he missed and forgot the first tashahhud, then prostrated for forgetfulness with only one prostration before the taslim, invalid or valid?
What is the ruling on sincere repentance from abandoning prayer out of laziness, and does it nullify what preceded it? And how can one make up many missed prayers?
What is the ruling on praying Fajr at home and staying in the prayer area until sunrise with the intention of gaining the reward of a complete Hajj, knowing that the prayer is performed before the time for Fajr expires, and in many cases the worshiper does not catch it in the mosque?
Is the blood that came down thirteen days after the first menstrual period, and continued for seven days with different characteristics (brown, red, black), considered menstruation or istihadah (non-menstrual vaginal bleeding)? And must prayers be made up for the days that were prayed, thinking it was istihadah, then it became clear that it had symptoms of menstruation?
Will God hold accountable the woman afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder who missed Fajr prayer due to spending too long in the restroom?
Is he who is martyred in Jihad, and who has missed prayers that he has not made up, sinful, and will he be held accountable for them, and which is better: making up missed prayers before Jihad or during it?