Mincha Prayer at the Time of Maariv
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Question
A person who prayed Mincha 22 minutes after sunset because he mistook the time of sunset. Should he pray Maariv, or does this prayer take the place of Maariv and he only needs to complete the blessings of Shema?
Answer
Answer of our teacher, the Gaon, Rabbi Ovadia Fried, shlita:
He should repeat the prayer with the condition that it is either Maariv, a compensation, or a voluntary prayer [since it is not adjacent to the obligatory prayer].
Source
There are many contradictions on this matter, see Sefer 107 and 108, as well as RSG, therefore he should repeat the prayer with the condition that it is either Maariv, a compensation, or a voluntary prayer.