(What Should Be Done) If The Imām Delays The Prayer
Darussalam · Volume 1
2. THE BOOK OFAṢ-ṢALĀT (THE PRAYER)Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 431 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 117
Source no. 431 · Volume 1 · Page 2
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صحيح
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(قلت: إسناده صحيح، رجاله رجال "الصحيح". وأخرجه أبو عوانة في "صحيحه" من طريق المؤلف، وأخرجه مسلم أيضًا. وقال الترمذي: "حديث حسن")
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431. Abū Dharr said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to me: 'O Abū Dharr! What will you do when you will have leaders who will destroy the prayers,' or perhaps he said, '...delay it?' So I said: 'O Messenger of Allāh! What do you command me to do?' He replied: 'Offer the prayer at its proper time, then, if you catch it with them, [pray it with them], for it will be counted as a voluntary (prayer) for you.'" (Saḥīḥ)
431 - حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ يَعْنِي الْجَوْنِيَّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ إِذَا كَانَتْ عَلَيْكَ أُمَرَاءُ يُمِيتُونَ الصَّلَاةَ؟ - أَوْ قَالَ: يُؤَخِّرُونَ الصَّلَاةَ؟ - "، قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي، قَالَ: «صَلِّ الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا فَإِنْ أَدْرَكْتَهَا مَعَهُمْ فَصَلِّهَا فَإِنَّهَا لَكَ نَافِلَةٌ»
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The meaning of "destroy" the prayers is to delay them. In this case, a person should perform the prayer in its proper time, and when attending the later congregation, that later prayer will be considered a voluntary prayer in reward, and this is applicable to all of the obligatory prayers.