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Post by Sufi Aqa on Apr 11, 2015 21:33:23 GMT
Assalamu 'alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,
If someone starts following the Hanafi Madhhab after some time (which was spent following another Madhhab or no Madhhab at all), is he supposed to make up the salawat al-witr he didn't perform while being Shafi'i/salafi/whatever?
Concrete scenario number 1 A brother started left the "salafi da`wah" some months ago and started following the Hanafi Madhhab. He recently learnt that ghusl is necessary after wet dreams (while had been previously given wrong informations by his parents) and thus is going to make qada' of the Salawat faridah of that period (a few months), but he asked, having now started to follow the Hanafi Madhhab, whether he's supposed to make qada' of the salawat al-witr of that period, too?
Concrete scenario number 2 A brother had been following the Shafi'i Madhhab for a few years, then shifted to the Hanafi Madhhab. Is he supposed to make up the Salawat al-Witr he didn't perform while being "Shafi'i"?
Jazakum Allahu khayran, Wassalam!
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Post by Sufi Aqa on Jun 13, 2015 1:26:01 GMT
I happened to find a reply to (at least) the second point:
"Question: Situation A: A person is Shafi and does 1 rakat witrs for X number of years. This person becomes Hanafi and wants to make up missed prayers he has in the past. Do these witr prayers have to made up? Situation B: A person is Shafi and doesn’t do any witr because its not wajib on them for X number of years. The person becomes Hanafi and wants to make up missed prayers he has in the past. Does he have to make up the witrs?
Answer: In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Walaikum assalam,
There is a legal principle that, An ijtihad is not invalidated by another. [Kasani, Badai` al-Sanai` 7.6; Abd al-Aziz al-Bukhari, Kashf al-Asrar, 3.74; and almost every major Hanafi fiqh work, with similar wordings]
From this principle, a derived ancillary principle is that, Following a valid ijtihad in the past does not need to be rectified by ones following different ijtihad later on.
As such, if the person prayed 1-rakat witr as a Shafi`i, or even omitted praying it, no makeup would be necessary if one later became a Hanafi.
Of course, if one chooses to make it up, out of caution or taqwa, one is rewarded. It is a sunna to makeup missed witrs in the Shafi`i and Hanbali schools. [cf: Ibn Hajar, Tuhfa al-Muhtaj; Buhuti, Kashshaf al-Qina`]
And Allah alone gives success.
Walaikum assalam, Faraz Rabbani.
BTW: Ahlan wa Sahlan [http://islamqa.org/hanafi/qibla-hanafi/43585]
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