Fathwa, - Changing the intention from offering a voluntaryprayer to offering an obligatory one

Question
Is it permissible for one praying alone to change the intention from
offering an obligatory prayer to offering a voluntary one?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify
that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad
isHis slave and Messenger.
In principle, the individual is obliged to complete offering the
prayer if he started it as an obligatory prayer. However, he may
change his intention from offering an obligatory prayer to offering a
voluntary one with a legitimate excuse. An example of this is an
individual who started offering a prayer and then remembered that he
did not offer the prayer that precedes it inorder after he bowed. So
he is to change his intention from offering an obligatory prayer
intooffering a voluntary one and then he is to offer hisobligatory
prayers in dueorder.
He has to change his intention from offering an obligatory prayer so
as not to violate the prohibition of the Prophet , who forbadeto offer
the same prayer twice on the same day.[Ahmad and Abu Daawood].
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