What is The Timing for Making up Missed Prayers?

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The brother says in the question that he is sick, underwent surgery, and has missed several obligatory Salahs (prayers). So, should he pray all of them together after he recovers? Or should he pray every obligatory prayer at its own time, such as Asr with the [future] Asr, and Dhuhr with the [future] Dhuhr, etc?

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Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen
He prays them all together at the same time, because when the Prophet ﷺ missed the Asr prayer during the Battle of the Khandaq, he made it up before the Maghrib [prayer]. Similarly, every person who has missed prayers must pray them all together and not delay them. Moderator: And this is really something that many people ask and are confused about, because they believe, or it seems to them, that prayer can only be (prayed) at its time. So, they delay Dhuhr to the [future] Dhuhr and continues (like this) for many days without praying. The Sheikh: And this is incorrect, because the time of the obligatory prayers is when they are remembered due to the statement of the Prophet ﷺ: “Whoever sleeps through a prayer or forgets it, let him pray it when he remembers it.”

Additional references

The Series of Fatwas of Noorun Ala Addarb of His Eminence, The Scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Sālih Ibn ʿUthaymīn - Tape: 2 Fatwa: 10