In summary, then.

If the person praying remembers.

That he forgot a prayer, whether he remembers it during the next prayer or after he has prayed.

Then it is obligatory for him.

To pray the prayer he forgot first, then pray the current prayer after it.

And if he fears, and if the time for the current prayer is about to end.

In every case, he performs the missed prayer first, then follows it with the current prayer. Why? Because we have made the order obligatory.

And if the time for the current prayer has ended, it does not matter.

And if he is following an imam, he does not leave but continues with his imam, then he performs the missed prayer, then repeats the prayer he performed with the imam.

But this is what we are mentioning.

If the missed prayers are few.

But if they are many, then he performs the current prayer first. And you remember when I told you that the majority, in general, make the order obligatory.

What I meant here is the disagreement; here, they differ from the Hanbalis.

Who are those who say that the order is obligatory? The Malikis, the Hanafis, and the Hanbalis, and the Hanbalis.

If the missed prayers are few, there is no disagreement among us that it is obligatory to make them up in order.

He starts with the first one and so on. But if the missed prayers are many,

then we and the Hanafis say he starts with the current prayer and then makes up the missed ones.

And the Hanbalis say he should pray.

For the Hanbalis, there is no difference between a small or large number, but for us and the Hanafis, the fatwa differs. If the missed prayers are few.

He arranges them. If they are many, then no. This is what Bashar said: arrange the few with the current prayer.

What is considered few? What is this small number?

If the forgotten prayers are one, or two, or three, or four prayers.

And there is also an opinion in the madhhab that it is five prayers.

More than five, there is no difference of opinion among us or the Hanafis that this is many, so he starts with the current prayer, but less than that.

He said: Arrange the small number with the present prayer, like forty, and al-Bishr chose the opinion that they are four, like four, and arrange the benefits.

The opinion of four is supported by the narration of Ibn Mas'ud and the narration of Abu Sa'id.

For what the Prophet ﷺ missed was four prayers: Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha. But this is only used for support, not as definitive evidence.

Some added a theoretical argument, which is also only for support, and said: the obligation of order.

In prayers, it is compared to the obligation of order in the units of prayer, and most of the units.