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Calculating Missed Salaahs: Starting Age for Baaligh Unclear

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Q: In calculating all one’s missed salaahs in life, does one start from the age of 12 or 15 if one cannot recall when one had become baaligh?

Bismillaah

A: Employ your discretion and if you cannot make it at all in spite of you exhausting yourself then count yourself as baaligh from the age of fifteen.

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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