Does a Prohibitively Disliked Action Invalidate a Makeup Prayer?

Answered by Ustadh Sufyan Qufi

Question

1. Doing makruh tahrima action in prayer means you have to repeat the prayer unless the prayer time exits right?

2. What if it was done in a Qaza prayer. Are they all void?

Answer

In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful,

I pray this finds you in the best of states.

1. Yes, it would be sinful not to repeat a prayer in which a prohibitively disliked action has been committed within this prayer’s time.

The fatwa position of most of the later scholars is that if one performed a prayer with something prohibitively disliked (makruh tahriman), it is

(1) necessary (wajib) to repeat within the time; and

(2) not necessary to repeat after the time—but, instead, it is recommended to repeat.

[Haskafi, al-Durr al-Mukhtar; Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat ala Maraqi al-Falah]

2. No, a makeup prayer remains valid despite containing prohibitively disliked elements. [Shurunbulali, Nur al-Idah]

This is because all its obligatory (fard) elements have been performed. Validity is not dependent on anything else. [ibid]

It would be thus recommended to repeat it because the original time of this prayer has ended.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalam
[Ustadh] Sufyan Qufi
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Ustadh Sufyan Qufi is an advanced seeker of knowledge, originally from Algeria, who grew up in France. He began searching far and wide for answers to the fundamental questions of life and was disappointed at the answers he found. Then he connected with various traditional teachers and gradually connected with SeekersGuidance. He embarked on his journey of learning through the various teachers at SeekersGuidance, including his mentor Shaykh Faraz Rabbani. He studied numerous texts in Islamic Law, Theology, Hadith, and other areas with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and other teachers, including Shaykh Abdurrahman al-Sha‘ar, Shaykh Ali Hani, and others. He is an active instructor at SeekersGuidance and answers questions through the SeekersGuidance Answers Service.