Having Missed a Prayer, Saying “The Prophet ﷺ Too Missed a Prayer”

Question

A certain religious scholar missed the Fajr prayer. When people said to him, “If you have missed the prayer, what will become of people like us?”, he replied off-hand, “Why, the Prophet ﷺ too missed a prayer,” which had a bad effect on people. What is the ruling on such a person?

Answer

Once, on the return from a campaign, at a halting-place, despite all arrangements the Fajr prayer was missed; and on another occasion, in the preoccupation of a campaign, no opportunity for prayer arose at all, and then the prayer was missed — over which the Noble Prophet ﷺ felt boundless regret and grief, so much so that he even invoked a curse: may Allah Most High fill the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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