Is it permissible to combine the greeting of the mosque with a regular voluntary prayer (rawatib) with a single intention?

Question:
May Allah bless you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is it permissible to combine the greeting of the mosque with the regular voluntary prayer (rawatib) of the midday prayer with a single intention?

Answer:
He prays the rawatib with the intention of the rawatib, and that suffices for the greeting of the mosque. If he prays the greeting of the mosque and then prays the rawatib, that is better. But if he wants to limit himself to one, he limits himself to the rawatib, and that suffices for the greeting of the mosque. He does not intend it as the greeting of the mosque and say it suffices for the rawatib. No, the opposite: he intends it as the rawatib, and it suffices for the greeting of the mosque.