Question Summary:
Performing Asar in Shaafi time

Question Detail:

Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu, If a Hanafi prays Asr salah during Shaafi time accidentally, thinking it's time for Asr. Later on they find out they prayed during the Shaafi time will they have to repeat their Asr Salah? And this person is not traveling nor did they pray in jamaat. Jazakumullahu Khairan!

Answer :

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
One should exercise precaution in performing every Salaah in its appropriate time.
There are two competing views in the Hanafi madhab regarding the ending time for Zohar salaah and the commencing time for Asar salaah.
One of the views concur with the Shaafi view.
In the enquired situation and in view of Shaafi time also being a reliable Hanafi view, the Asar salaah performed in the Shaafi time will be valid. [i]
 
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Muhammed Al-Ameen Bin Moulana Ismail Akoo
Student Darul Iftaa
Newcastle; KZN, South Africa
Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.