"Quadha Prayer" is the prayer which is offered after the legally prescribed time.

Issue 647: A person must offer their prayers within the prescribed time, and if their prayers become Quadha with no excuse, they will be sinners and they must repent it and offer the Quadha prayers.

Issue 648: In two cases, it is obligatory to offer Quadha prayers:

1- When a person has not offered some obligatory prayers within the prescribed time.

2- When after the prescribed time for some obligatory prayers a person realizes that the prayers they have offered have been void.

Issue 649: A person who must offer some Quadha prayers must avoid neglecting them, although it is not obligatory to offer them immediately.

Issue 650: It is not necessary to observe the succession and the sequential order in offering the Quadha of the daily prayers. For example, if a person has not offered their afternoon prayers one day and their midday prayers the next day, it is not necessary to offer the Quadha of the afternoon prayers first and then the midday prayers.

Issue 651: A person, who is certain that they have to offer some Quadha prayers, but doubts the number of them, for instance, they doubt whether they must offer four prayers or five, it will suffice if they offer four prayers, that is, as many as the smaller number.

Issue 652: If a person forgets the number of the Quadha prayers they must offer, it will suffice if they offer as many as the smallest number of prayers they guess they should have offered.

Issue 653: Quadha prayers can be offered in congregation, irrespective of whether the prayers of the Imam are Ada or Quadha. It is not necessary that both of them should be offering the same prayers. For instance, it does not matter if a person offers the Quadha of their dawn prayer with the midday or afternoon prayers of the Imam.

Issue 654: If the midday, afternoon, or evening prayers of a traveler who must offer reduced (two-Rak'at) prayers become Quadha, they must offer two-Rak'at prayers as the Quadha, even if they offer them when they are no longer on a journey.

Issue 655: While on a journey, a person is not allowed to fast even as Quadha, but they are allowed to offer Quadha prayers.

Issue 656: If a person is willing to offer the Quadha of some complete prayers (which have became Quadha while at home), they must offer four-Rak'at prayers as the Quadha of midday, afternoon, and evening prayers.

Issue 657: Quadha prayers can be offered at any time, i.e. one can offer dawn prayer at noon or night.

Q658: I have some Quadha prayers to offer, but I do not know the exact number of them, and I even became fussy about the number.

What must I do about this?

A: You must offer the Quadha of the least and certain number of them.

Q659: A person has a stroke and suffers mental disorder such that they fail to discern between good and evil or to realize the exact quantity of something. This person cannot observe the succession of the prayers they offer and sometimes finishes the prayers when they must not, or after finishing some prayers, they start to recite Al-Hamd and the other chapter again. After four years of being in such state, they die. Is it obligatory to offer the Quadha prayers for them?

A: It is not obligatory for a person suffering mental disorder to offer prayers or to fast, and such religious duties lapse, because one necessary condition for carrying out one's religious duties is to be mentally healthy. Thus, as it has not been obligatory for the person to offer their prayers and fast, it is not obligatory for the heirs or heiresses to offer the Quadha.

Q660: Despite knowing that it is forbidden for a man to wear gold rings, a man offers their prayers having a gold ring on while being on a journey. What is the case of his prayers? Must he offer the Quadha of such prayers? If so, must he offer reduced prayers?

A: His prayers have been void, and if he has been on the journey through out the prescribed time for prayers and the time has passed now, he must offer reduced prayers, and if he arrives in time at his hometown or any place where his prayers are complete, but still his prayers become Quadha for some reason, then he must offer complete prayers. In such cases, the criterion is where a person is before the time for prayers lapses.

Q 661: Is it permissible to offer just the Quadha of dawn prayer for one year, then midday prayers for one year the next year, afternoon prayers for one year and so on, such that after five years a person will have completed the Quadha prayers of one whole year?

A: It is permissible to do so for morning prayers, but for the other daily prayers, one must observe the sequential order. To do this, they can offer midday and afternoon prayers for one year, and then the next year they should offer sunset and evening prayers.

Q662: What is to be done if a person has offered complete prayers instead of reduced prayers and vice versa?

A: Reduced prayers offered instead of complete prayers must be redone in complete form, but for the complete prayers offered instead of reduced prayers, if it has been due to ignorance about the issue of travelers' prayers, they should not offer the Quadha, and if they have known the issue, but due to ignorance about the details they have offered complete prayers, they have to offer the corresponding Quadha prayer.