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220. Abū Sa'eed narrated: "A man came when Allāh's Messenger ﷺ had already prayed, so he ﷺ said: 'Which of you will give some reward to this person?' So a man stood to pray with him." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abū Umāmah, Abū Mūsā, and Al-Ḥakam bin ‘Umayr.
Abū ‘Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Abū Sa‘eed is a Ḥasan Ḥadīth.
This is the opinion of more than one of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others among the Tābi‘in.
They say that there is no harm if people perform congregational Ṣalāt in a Masjid where Ṣalāt had already been performed [in congregation].
This is the view of Aḥmad and Ishāq.
Others among the people of knowledge say that they are to perform the Ṣalāt individually.
This is the view of Sufyān, Ibn Al-Mubārak, Mālik, and Ash-Shāfi‘ī, they chose the view that one should perform the Ṣalāah individually.
[Sulaimān An-Nājī (one of the narrators) is from Al-Baṣrah, and he is called Sulaimān bin Al-Aswad.
And Abū Al-Mutawakkil’s (one of the narrators) name is ‘Alī bin Dāwūd].
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Footnotes
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[1] That is, any of the five prayers, not just Fajr, see (Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi).
Commentary
This Ḥadīth proves that if a person comes late to the congregation owing to
an excuse he may ask someone to join him to congregate. But lagging behind intentionally without any reason to have a second congregation is incorrect.
