while others give it more scope, saying the two units may be made up from sunrise until the sun passes its zenith, and after that they are left. Among those who hold that they may be made up, some recommend it and others leave the choice.
Continuation on the Inward Application of This Section
When the time of any right owed to God passes, whether obligatory or recommended, no other time restricts it, since the Law has imposed no such restriction. A person may discharge it as a make-up whenever he wishes before death. If it was due to forgetfulness, he is performing it at its proper time. In sleep or forgetfulness his act is never a make-up.
Continuation on Lying Down After the Two Units of the Dawn Sunnah
Some held that it is obligatory, which is my position, because the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, is reliably reported to have commanded it. Some held it a sunna, some held it recommended, and some rejected it.
(Returning to the Text and the Author’s Position on Following Another’s Authority)
This is plain beyond doubt to every hadith scholar who knows God’s revealed law. The same cannot be said of jurists who
