Missed and Made Up Prayers
1,857 questions
What should we do concerning the vow we made to ourselves to recite Surat Al-Baqarah daily, which we have not fulfilled?
Is it permissible for me to postpone making up many mixed prayers (between what was due to a valid excuse and what was not due to an excuse), and is it valid to make them up with a general intention without distinction or order?
What is the ruling on one who deliberately misses a single prayer for one day of the week and then makes it up? And does he commit an act of disbelief (kufr) if he does not make it up, according to the methodology of Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Uthaymeen?
What is the ruling on the prayer of someone who prayed as a follower behind someone other than the successor (al-mustakhlaf), and the ruling on the congregants transferring their intentions to the successor in the same rak'ah, and what is the ruling on the prayer of the one who was not made successor, and what is the ruling on my two prayers after catching two rak'ahs with the successor?
How can faith be nurtured, increased, and cultivated in oneself and others? Is this achieved by pondering the Quran and Allah's Most Beautiful Names, especially given that the creed of some preachers is being impugned? How do we transition from one stage to another in the cultivation of faith, benefiting from the Prophet’s method of teaching the Companions to abandon sins and embrace acts of obedience? What is the solution for someone who delays making up missed prayers due to a medical excuse related to their stomach, postponing and becoming preoccupied from them, despite their religiosity and desire for Paradise?
Is it permissible for the teacher to take payment in advance as a guarantee of his right, and is he entitled to take money for a session that the student intentionally missed?
How can one atone for a vow to practice masturbation repeatedly for ten years, and is it obligatory to fast for two months or feed sixty poor people, and how are missed prayers from years ago due to sleep or forgetfulness to be made up?
What is the expiation for breaking a covenant made with Allah not to repeat a bad deed, and for not maintaining prayers at their appointed times due to extreme despair?
What is the logical and Sharia-based evidence from the Qur’an and Sunnah for the obligation to make up all prayers missed since the age of puberty?
Are the pre-prayer supererogatory Sunnah prayers to be performed before the adhan or between the adhan and the iqamah? Can they be made up if the congregational prayer is missed? Can the supererogatory Sunnah prayers be made up at night during the time of Tahajjud? Is it a condition that Tahajjud be delayed until after the Isha prayer? Is it permissible to perform the Tahajjud prayer an hour before the Fajr prayer?
What is the ruling regarding my previous prayers in which I did not move my tongue and lips during recitation, and how many prayers must I repeat? Is expiation obligatory if I am not sure about having sworn an oath on something?
What are the rulings for making up many missed prayers, especially concerning: 1. Not making up the 'Isha prayer after making up the rest of the day's prayers; does this invalidate what was already made up? 2. The times when it is forbidden by Sharia to make up prayers? 3. Is it permissible to make up two days of missed prayers by combining their rak'ahs together?
Must one whose repentance from abandoning prayer due to watching pornography has been repeated pronounce the Two Testimonies and perform ghusl each time, or is there another action for his sincere repentance?
How can one make up missed prayers without missing present prayers, and is it permissible to postpone making up missed prayers while continuing to perform present prayers, due to circumstances of gas and fluid discharge from the vagina and daily fatigue?
Do the prayers the questioner missed because she thought her menstruation was continuing, when in reality she might have been pure, necessitate a make-up (qada')?
Is it obligatory to make up missed prayers for someone who deliberately abandoned them due to negligence and laziness for two weeks, knowing that he has repented and can specify the number of days?
If a single taslīmah is sufficient to conclude the prayer, and the phrase "As-salāmu ʿalaykum" alone suffices, should I stand to make up what I missed after the imām says "As-salāmu ʿalaykum" in the first taslīmah, or should I wait until he completes "wa raḥmatullāh"? And if I wish to act upon the mustaḥabb (recommended), which is to wait for the second taslīmah, should I wait for "As-salāmu ʿalaykum" only, or for "As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatullāh"? And does my prayer become void if I remain until the imām says "wa raḥmatullāh" in the second taslīmah? What about my past prayers in which I did that? Should I repeat them? And is the imām's saying "As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatullāh" considered a single taslīmah, such that it is not permissible to stand before completing it?
Is feeding the poor as expiation done by multiplying the number of days by 1.5 kilograms of rice, and is it a condition that the poor person be Muslim?
What is the ruling on the discharge of brown and yellow fluid outside of the regular menstrual period?
Is there a practice of istikhara for the Prophet (peace be upon him)? And is there a supplication to improve crops?
Is the prayer of one who woke up late, a few minutes before Asr, and the call to Asr was made while the worshiper was engaged in praying Dhuhr alone; considered "adaa'" (performed on time) or "qadaa'" (performed as a make-up), and did he catch it? And what is the meaning of the word "adaa'" in the fatwas related to the sayings of the Malikis and the majority of scholars regarding one who did not intend to make up a prayer whose time had elapsed, and that Dhuhr and Asr share a common time? And if the mother caught the prayer behind her son and then saluted with him, is she to stand up and perform the missed rak'ahs after the salutation, or is she to repeat the prayer from the beginning?
Must one make up prayers missed due to doubt concerning the rulings of purity, or due to not knowing their number?
What should I repeat first: the prayers in which the pillar of standing was not fulfilled, or the prayers in which the recitation was not audible and one's own breath was not heard?
What must a girl do who neglected obligatory fasting for many years, and broke her fast by engaging in intercourse during Ramadan for three days, and does not know the number of days she missed, and is it permissible for her to feed the poor instead of fasting as expiation for intercourse?