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803. Anas bin Mālik narrated: "The Prophet ﷺ would perform I'tikāf during the last ten (nights) of Ramaḍān. One year he did not perform I'tikāf, so he performed I'tikāf for twenty (nights) in the following year." (Sahīh)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadīth is Ḥasan Gharīb Sahīh, as a narration of Anas (bin Mālik).
The people of knowledge differ over the case of one who is performing I'tikāf and he severs his I'tikāf before completing what he intended. Some of the people of knowledge said that when he invalidates his I'tikāf then it is required for him to make it up. They argue using the Hadīth: "The Prophet ﷺ left his I'tikāf, so he performed I'tikāf during ten (nights) of Shawwāl." This is the view of Mālik. Some of them said: If he did not take a vow to perform I'tikāf, or something that would make it obligatory upon him, and it is voluntary and he leaves, then it is not required for him to make it up, otherwise it would be required
from him by his own choice, not because it was obligatory upon him. This is the view of Ash-Shāfi‘ī.
Ash-Shāfi‘ī said: "For every deed that you do not have to begin; if you do begin it, then leave it, then it is not required from you to make it up, except for Hajj and Umrah."
And there is something narrated on this topic from Abū Hurairah.
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Commentary
Making up a violated I'tikāf is compulsory and in case of violating a voluntary I'tikāf, making it up is not compulsory.
