{"id":7434,"date":"2025-11-19T00:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:37:37","slug":"offering-the-sunnah-of-fajr-or-catching-the-obligatory-fajr-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=7434","title":{"rendered":"Offering the Sunnah of Fajr or Catching the Obligatory Fajr Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">The Sunnah of Fajr<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #ff0000\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">I get up shortly before the Fajr Prayer and make wudu (ablution), should I offer the Sunnah prayer or catch the obligatory prayer (Fajr)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #0000ff\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">In the name of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/islamic-creed\/almighty-allah\/\">Allah<\/a>, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Abu Hurairah narrated that Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: \u201cWhen the <a href=\"https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/how-much-is-the-time-between-adhan-and-iqamah\/\"><em>iqamah<\/em><\/a> (the call to commence prayer) for prayer is given, there is no prayer except the prescribed prayer.\u201d (Muslim)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Watch this short video to know more about the rulings of the obligatory and sunnah (supererogatory) prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/offering-the-sunnah-of-fajr-or-catching-the-obligatory-fajr-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get up shortly before the Fajr Prayer and make wudu (ablution), should I offer the Sunnah prayer or catch the obligatory prayer (Fajr)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1859,6060,6061,5583,782,4192,2755,1376,9,6062,5728,5140,6063,374,2382,1052,2255,1575,183,831,6064,1576,1577,6065,6066],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-ask-about-prayer","tag-askhuda","tag-dawn-salah","tag-fajr-namaz","tag-fajr-prayer","tag-fajr-salah","tag-fard-prayer","tag-fasting","tag-featured","tag-how-to-pray-sunnah-of-fajr","tag-hudaqa","tag-hudatv","tag-missed-sunnah-of-fajr","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-muslims-how-to-pray","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-at-night","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-ramadan","tag-ramadan2023","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-sunnah-of-fajr","tag-superregatory-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fajr-prayer.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","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=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}