Jan 20, 2010
Posted by firozozman in Daily Pearls | 4 Comments
Missing the Fajr Salah
Narrated Abu Qatada: When the people slept till so late that they did not offer the (morning) prayer, the Prophet said, “Allah captured your souls (made you sleep) when He willed, and returned them (to your bodies) when He willed.” So the people got up and went to answer the call of nature, performed ablution, till the sun had risen and it had become white, then the Prophet got up and offered the prayer. [Bukhari, 6990]
Umm Sahl, your sister in Islam, a wife and mother of 3 beautiful blessed babies
Points to Remember:
When you miss a prayer unintentionally, for a legitimate shar’i excuse, such as forgetting or sleeping, although you are basically very keen to perform the prayer on time. In this case you are excused but you have to make it up as soon as you remember it. The evidence for that is the hadeeth narrated in Saheeh Muslim (681) which tells how the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and his companions slept and missed Fajr prayer, and the Sahaabah began to ask one another, “What is the expiation (kafaarah) for what we have done by neglecting the prayer?” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said. “Sleeping does not mean that you are neglecting the prayer. Rather neglecting the prayer means not praying one prayer until the time for the next prayer comes. Whoever does that let him pray when he remembers it.”
This does not mean that a person should sleep deliberately when a prayer is due, until he misses it, then use sleep as an excuse, or neglect a means that would help him to do the prayer, and then take that as an excuse. Rather he must make use of all the means he can, as the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did in this case, when he appointed one person to stay awake and wake them up to pray, but that person was overcome by drowsiness, so he did not wake them up. This is the case in which a person may be excused.
Reference: http://islamqa.com/en/ref/13664/missing%20fajr
This does not mean that we can miss Fajr everyday just because of Sleep.
We need to take all the steps to get up like keep an alarm, etc and have the intention of waking up for fajr.
After taking all the steps and having the intention, and then we fall a sleep, Insha Allah we can pray it later on.
But for sure we cannot make sleep as an excuse everyday
subanallaa!!!these comments are really informative.
jazakAllahu khair sis Nisha 🙂