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If you miss praying witr, do you have to make it up? What about the other sunnah muakkada prayers? I know that leaving either is blameworthy
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon His Messenger Muhammad, his folk, companions, and followers
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
The ruling of the witr prayer is that it is necessary (wajib), and it is (a) sinful to leave without excuse; and (b) necessary (wajib) to make up if missedwith this, one must sincerely repent for one’s remissness.
As for confirmed sunna prayers, these are blameworthy to miss, but they are not required to make up if missed.
Those of spiritual resolve make up current sunna prayers they miss, as a means of spiritual discipline and of ensuring consistency in spiritual practice. The praiseworthiness of this is established from the sunna of the Beloved Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever sleeps through their litany (hizb) of night worship, or through some of it, and then performs it between Fajr and Zuhr prayer shall have it written as if they performed it at night.” [Muslim (747), on the authority of Umar (Allah be pleased with him)]
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And Allah alone gives success.
Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani