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Fatwa ID: 76671
Title: The difference between fard and wajib
Category: Prayer
Scholar: Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah
Date: 10/21/2008

Question

What is the difference between fard and wajib? And why do we pray three rakat witr as a wajib? Thanks.


Answer

This differentiation can be found only in the Hanafi juristic school; the other three schools do not make such a distinction between fard and wajib. The wajib in Hanafi terminology is equivalent to the stressed Sunnah in the other madhahib.  Witr prayer is a good example of that.