What is the Ruling of a Current Prayer While Leaving the Make Up Prayers?

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

I know that if there are few make up prayers left you have to pray them first and then Fard and other prayers. But there was little time left to pray make up of Fajr and then Dhuhr, so I prayed Dhuhr first and then Fajr. Are my prayers valid?

Answer

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate the Merciful

I hope you are well.

I commend you for having concern about your make up prayers, Allah (Most High) has made nothing obligatory that is beyond the capacity of his servants, and He is the one who will facilitate and assist who intends and perseveres to act in obedience unto Him.

It is important to pray the missed prayer in their order, for example, the Fajr make up should be before Dhur, Dhur make up before ‘Asr, and so on. However, if more than six prayers are missed then the order is no longer necessary.

In your case, you seem to be a person who has maintained order of prayers (Sahib al-Tartib) who has five or less prayers outstanding as qada.  But if you have six or more prayers qada upon you, you will not be regarded as a Sahib al-Tartib. The ruling for a Sahib al-Tartib is that one has to make up his qada prayers first, only thereafter can one perform the prayer of that time, due to the fact that order to perform all prayers in order is necessary upon a Sahib al-Tartib.

If one happens to forget about his missed prayer, like Fajr in your case, and you offer prayers of the current time, i.e Dhur and remember later that you had missed Fajr to perform, you should perform the Fajr as soon as you remember, and the prayer of the current time will be regarded as valid.  However, if you remembered about the missed Fajr prayer before or during Dhuhr prayer, you must first perform the qada of Fajr, thereafter the Dhur prayer.

May (Most High) give us success to fulfil all our obligations on time, amin

I pray this helps in your questions.

[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.

He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.

He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.

He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.