Making Up Five Missed Prayers: Consensus of the Jurists
Sourced from: Fatāwā Amini Puri by Shaykh Ghulām Mustafa Ẓahīr Amn Puri
❀ Question
If a person remains asleep through five prayers, will he make up all those prayers upon waking?
❀ Answer
If a person misses prayers due to sleep, then upon waking he must immediately perform all the missed prayers.
❀ Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (رحمه الله, d. 463 AH) stated:
“أجمعوا أن من نام عن خمس صلوات قضاها“
— There is consensus that whoever slept through five prayers must make them up.
(al-Tamhīd, 3/290)
ھذا ما عندي والله أعلم بالصواب
