This position reconciles the seemingly conflicting reports concerning missing the Witr Prayer—whether the person slept through it or forgot it—and concerning offering it within its proper time.

3. Muslim narrates (746) from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said, “When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not pray at night because sleep overtook him or his eyes grew heavy, he would make up twelve rakʿahs during the day.”