What to do with Missed Salāhs

15th February 2014

 

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته

Question: If the parents missed many Salāhs during their lifetime, is there any payment that must be given to compensate for their missed Salāhs?

 

 الجواب حامداً و مصلياً

In the name of Allāh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

Answer:

Generally, any Salāh missed during one’s lifetime whilst being capable of performing them must be performed as Qadha and if not then a Will must be made before passing away to pay for each missed Salāh, including Witr. For each Salāh missed an equivalent amount of Sadaqatul-Fitr must be given into charity. The payment must be taken out from one-third of the deceased’s total estate.

The Fuqahā state;

“It is necessary upon him to make a Will for which he was capable of performing (i.e. the missed Salāh and Fasts) that remained due upon him which (his) beneficiaries will take out from one-third of his total estate, an equivalent value of half Sa of wheat (similar to Sadaqatul-Fitr) for every Fast and Salāh (missed) including Witr.”[1]

If the deceased didn’t make a Will at the time of his death and the beneficiaries paid on his behalf an equivalent of Sadaqatul Fitr for every missed Salāh then Inshā-Allāh that would suffice.

“If he didn’t make a will and his legal inheritors paid it off voluntarily then that would be permissible.”[2]

 

[Allãh Knows Best]

 

 

Written by (Mufti) Abdul Waheed

Answer Attested by Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islam

JKN Fatawa Department

 

 

[1] Shurunbalali, Noorul-Iydhah, Kitābus Salāh, p104

[2] ibid