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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.
