{"id":9161,"date":"2025-12-16T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:37:42","slug":"ruling-witr-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Ruling of the Witr Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Witr Prayer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What is the ruling of the Witr prayer? Is it an obligatory or <em>nafl<\/em> prayer? I have not offered Witr prayer for a long time, do I have to make it up?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Witr<\/em> Prayer is the last prayer that a Muslim offers at night. It is a highly recommended Sunnah prayer. A Muslim may offer it at any time after the `Isha\u2019 Prayer (Night Prayer) and before the Fajr Prayer (Dawn Prayer). Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, &#8220;Perform <em>Witr <\/em>prayer before dawn.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/imam-muslim-leading-scholar-hadith\/\">Muslim<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet (peace upon him) did not leave the <em>Witr<\/em> Prayer even if he was on a journey or on his mount. Therefore, some scholars have classified it as <em>wajib<\/em> (obligatory) such as Imam Abu Hanifah, but the majority of scholars see that it is a confirmed Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him).<\/p>\n<p>Responding to this question, Dr. Muhammad Salah narrates the following <em>hadith<\/em> regarding the mandatory and <em>nafl<\/em> prayers, \u201cA man from Najd with unkempt hair came to Allah&#8217;s Messenger (peace be upon him) and we heard his loud voice but could not understand what he was saying, till he came near and then we came to know that he was asking about Islam. Allah&#8217;s Messenger (peace be upon him) said, &#8220;You have to offer prayers perfectly five times in a day and night (24 hours).&#8221; The man asked, &#8220;Is there any more (praying)?&#8221; Allah&#8217;s Messenger (peace be upon him) replied, &#8220;No, but if you want to offer the <em>Nawafil<\/em> prayers (you can)\u201d. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-history\/albukhari-the-imam-of-hadith-and-sunnah\/\">Al-Bukhari<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Do not miss watching this interesting fatwa with Dr. Muhammad Salah to know the ruling of the <em>Witr<\/em> Prayer.<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><br \/>\n<\/video><br \/>\n_________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Iqra Youtube Channel. <\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/ruling-witr-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does one have to make up the missed witr prayers?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[6648,1859,782,1920,9,1568,1569,4113,6401,374,2166,2014,4061,1052,1575,2088,6649,1576,1577,2096,6650,4710,6651,2196],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-al-sunan-al-rawatib","tag-ask-about-prayer","tag-fajr-prayer","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-featured","tag-how-muslims-pray","tag-how-to-pray","tag-how-to-pray-witr","tag-mandatory-prayers","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-nafl-prayers","tag-night-prayer","tag-obligatory-prayers","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-recommended-prayers","tag-ruling-of-witr-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-sunnah-prayers","tag-time-of-witr-prayer","tag-voluntary-prayers","tag-what-is-witr","tag-witr-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Witr-Prayer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}