The Iqamah for one who enters the mosque and finds a person praying
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The questioner:
His other question says: May Allah bless you. Regarding the prayer, if he enters the mosque and finds a person praying, and he does not know whether the person is praying an obligatory prayer or a voluntary one, is it permissible for him to perform the iqamah for himself and join him in prayer?
The Shaykh:
The iqamah (second call) is not required of him; he joins the one who is praying for the sake of the congregational prayer. The iqamah is sufficient as a collective obligation (fard kifayah) in the town, and the adhan (call to prayer) is a collective obligation. So if the adhan is called and the iqamah is made in the town, that is sufficient, and he prays with them without an iqamah. Yes.
His other question says: May Allah bless you. Regarding the prayer, if he enters the mosque and finds a person praying, and he does not know whether the person is praying an obligatory prayer or a voluntary one, is it permissible for him to perform the iqamah for himself and join him in prayer?
The Shaykh:
The iqamah (second call) is not required of him; he joins the one who is praying for the sake of the congregational prayer. The iqamah is sufficient as a collective obligation (fard kifayah) in the town, and the adhan (call to prayer) is a collective obligation. So if the adhan is called and the iqamah is made in the town, that is sufficient, and he prays with them without an iqamah. Yes.
Source
قناة «مكة و المدينة»، 11 فتاوى على الهواء - 08 / 08 / 1433هـ _ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (20:45)
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