CHAPTER: When Should The One Who Misses Them Make Them Up?
Narrated Qays ibn Amr: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم saw a person praying after the congregational prayer at dawn was over. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: There are two rak'ahs of the dawn prayer (i. e. the prescribed rak'ahs). The man replied: I did not pray the two rak'ahs before the dawn prayer. Hence I offered them now. The Messenger of Allah kept silent.
This tradition has also been transmitted by Ata bin Abi Rabah on the authority of Saad bin Saeed through a different chain of narrators. Abu Dawud said: Abd Rabbihi and Yahya bin Saeed also narrated this tradition from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم omitting the name of the Companion (mursal). Their grandfather Zaid prayed along with the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم.