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219. Jābir bin Yazīd bin Al-Aswad [Al-'Āmirī] narrated that his father said: "I attended Hajj with the Prophet ﷺ. I prayed the Subh (Fajr) prayer with him in Masjid Al-Khaif." He said: "When the Prophet ﷺ finished, he turned (from the Qiblah) and saw two men at the back of the people who had not prayed with him. He said, 'Bring them to me.' So I brought them while they were shuddering with fear. He said: 'What prevented you from praying with us?' They said: 'O Messenger of Allāh!' We prayed at our camp.' So he said: 'Do not do that; when you pray in your camp then you come to a Masjid with a congregation, then pray with them. That will be a voluntary prayer for you.'" (Ṣahīh)
[He said] : There are narrations on this topic from Mihjan [Ad-Dailami] and Yazīd bin 'Āmir.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Yazīd bin Al-Aswad is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīth.
It is the saying of more than one of the people of knowledge.
It is the view of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Ash-Shāfi'i, Aḥmad and Ishāq.
They say that when a man prays alone, then he finds a congregation, he should repeat all of the prayers[1] in congregation. And if a man prays Maghrib alone, then he finds a congregation. The above-named scholars said that he should pray it with them, and he makes the number of Rak'ah even by adding one. The one that he prayed alone counts as the obligatory prayer according to them.
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Commentary
This Ḥadīth proves that the one who has done the prayer individually due to an excuse and then comes to the mosque and finds the congregational prayer being performed, he should join in the congregation; this rule is not for any particular prayer.
