{"id":14977,"date":"2026-04-20T05:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:37:51","slug":"leaving-the-witr-during-taraweeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=14977","title":{"rendered":"Leaving the Witr During Taraweeh to Pray Later at Home: Excused?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #ff6600\"><strong>Leaving the Witr During Taraweeh<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\"><strong>Question:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\">Should I complete the <em>rakah<\/em> of <em>witr<\/em> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/what-are-the-conditions-of-the-imam\/\">the Imam<\/a> during the <em>taraweeh<\/em> prayer if I want to pray later at night or should I leave before the <em>witr<\/em>? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\">It is noticed that many people leave the mosque when the imam finishes the <em>taraweeh<\/em> prayer and before offering the <em>witr<\/em>\u00a0in order to pray more or later at home. As it is known that <em>witr<\/em> should be the last prayer of the day, they do not want to pray <em>witr<\/em> with the imam mosque, but they want to pray more at home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\">But by this practice, a Muslim is missing out a great reward of spending the whole night in prayer, as it was narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, &#8220;Whoever prays <em>Qiyam<\/em> with the Imam until he finishes, Allah will record for him the <em>Qiyam<\/em> of a (whole) night.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/imam-an-nasai-the-great-authority-of-hadith\/\">An-Nasa&#8217;i<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\">To know more about the rulings of offering the witr with the imam during taraweeh prayer, you can watch this short video with Dr. Muhammad Salah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/span> <\/em><\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/leaving-the-witr-during-taraweeh\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the reward of offering the Witr with the imam during the taraweeh prayer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}