Prayer: Unsure When Puberty Began: Do I Owe Qadā’ for Prayers and Fasts?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: Unsure When Puberty Began: Do I Owe Qadā’ for Prayers and Fasts?

English:

Question #525:

It has been about six months since I reached the age of shar‘ī puberty. Up until some weeks before my age of shar‘ī puberty I was under the impression that there was only one sign of ritual maturity, i.e. the completion of fifteen lunar years. Then I happened to read a book which spoke of the signs of maturity for boys. I read there of other signs of maturity which I really possessed but do not know the date of their occurrence. So, do I now have to perform the qaḍā’ of my prayers and fasts? Taking into consideration that I would sometimes perform prayers and that I fasted the whole of Ramadan last year, what is the ruling in this case?

Answer #525:

It is obligatory to perform the qaḍā’ of all the prayers and fasts that you are certain you missed after becoming ritually mature.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer