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445. 'Aishah narrated: "When the Prophet ﷺ did not pray at night because he was prevented from it by sleep or being sleepy, then he would pray twelve Rak'ah during the daytime." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ.
'Abbās narrated to us – and he is Ibn 'Abdul-'Azīm Al-'Anbarī: "Attāb bin Al-Muthanna narrated to us from Bahz bin Ḥakīm who said: 'Zurārah bin Awfa (a narrator in the chain of this Ḥadīth) was a judge in Al-Baṣrah. He would lead the prayer for Banū Qushair, and one day for the Ṣubh prayer he recited: Then when the Trumpet is sounded. Truly that Day will be a Hard Day.[1] Then he fell dead. I was one of those who carried him back to his home.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: Sa'd bin Hishām (one of the narrators) is Ibn 'Āmir Al-Anṣārī, and Hishām bin 'Āmir is one of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
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Commentary
Reflecting upon the mentioned Ḥadīth of 'Āishah ﷺ, some scholars expressed the view that making up Witr during the day is with an even number of Rak'ah. For example: four Rak'ah to replace three, six for five and eight for seven, respectively; as the Prophet ﷺ prayed twelve Rak'ah during the day to make up eleven Rak'ah. This form can certainly be desirable for those who can make up the night prayer along with the Witr or want to do so, but those who want to just make up the Witr, they may make up just the Witr after the dawn, after Fajr prayer or after sunrise. As mentioned in a Ḥadīth: "He who sleeps during the time of Witr prayer or he forgets it, he should pray it when he remembers it or when he wakes up". [At-Tirmidhi, Ḥadīth: 465]
Thus both types of narrations or the practice and the commandment of the Prophet ﷺ are mutually reconciled. Allāh knows the truth best! Another type of reconciliation may be that late night prayer is interpreted as Witr in some Aḥādīth; in light of the interpretation of the statement of the Prophet ﷺ "He who sleeps during the time of Witr prayer or he forgets it, he should pray it
when he remembers it or when he wakes up” and his practice “if he could not pray night prayer due to being overcome by sleep or because of any other difficulty, he would then pray twelve Rak'ah during the day”; as if the first Hadīth (the verbal one) is about the commandment of making up Witr and in the second Hadīth is the practical form of making it up. Thus it became clear with the reconciliation between both the verbal commandment and the practice that if the night prayer is missed, then twelve Rak'ah will be performed during the day instead of eleven.
