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Do we have to make up every missed salah? | Mufti Abu Layth

salat salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice dalil daleel adillah adilla proof koran quraan al-quran ulama ulema ulamaa shukr shukar shukur

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move on muhammad hassan right much love for the super chat do we have to make up all missed salahs ever don't you love it you see like do we have to make it up ever [Laughter] look these things have a difference of opinion the the general view of people is you have to always make up salah this is the general main view that you will find in most places

0:39

so they will say you always have to make up salah there are some people who feel that no they feel that if you had to make up salah then allah would have mentioned it but he never mentioned it and neither did the prophet ever mention specifically about yes there is a hadith about the prophet saying

1:10

that's whosoever slept you know slept on a salaz and they had to pray and they fell asleep um all forgot about it and then remembered oh damn i was supposed to pray then let them pray when they remember now this hadith is speaking about something at hand so oh i was supposed to pray damn i forgot let me pray does this extend to salas that you intentionally left out over a lifetime so this is where the scholars have disagreed

1:48

most have said that you have to pray always as in you have to make it up some question and even a rushed as well questions in his beta0 the famous maliki spanish philosopher he questions that you know there is no clear evidence that in the quran of the sunnah that a person has to make up intentionally left prayers although he does state that majority of the people say yes you do but really the evidence doesn't seem to be there so yeah so these some of these scholars say that look the main thing is what is at hand so the

2:28

salah at hand is what matters and to me i i always remind people that it's not about don't see salah as a kind of burden as a kind of debt as they can see as a thing of gratitude and it's always about the now you know i haven't been able to pray before let's start now see and this is why i'm not keen on this debt approach because somebody who doesn't pray the the reason is because he's already struggling to pray so if you tell them okay well you only

3:05

have to make up you know well the good news is you only have to make up eight thousand prayers well obviously this is a person who's struggling to pray one so to me it's about focusing on the now see living that ever present now right let's

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, August 28). Do we have to make up every missed salah? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gfcsdydqrps/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Do we have to make up every missed salah? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {8},
  date = {2021-08-28},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gfcsdydqrps/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}