Answered by Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
If I do my wudu and want to pray two rak’ahs that are recommended after wudu, do I have to pray them immediately after wudu, or can I delay them? If delaying them is permissible, how long can I delay them for?
You can delay as long as the delay is not considered “long” by common acknowledgment (‘urf). Otherwise, it’s time expires and it can’t be made up. The delay is considered “long” if it is longer than the time to pray two brief rak‘ahs after having read the sunnah dhikr [m: after wudu] and Surah Al-Qadr [m: surah 97] three times. (Bughya Al-Mustarshideen, p. 24)
Amjad Rasheed
Amman, Jordan
(Translated by Moustafa Elqabbany and Hamza Karamali)