The ruling on one who stands for an extra rak'ah in the prayer
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The questioner:
So let it be that at times he prays with them, and in the fourth rak'ah, after their recitations differed, he said: I swear by Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, and only the rain is from the believers that Allah has for you a drop, and his saying "peace" is easier for every one of the month, so they said their facing of the prayer is one, and it was true from them that they heard it, and Aisha stood, and some of them repeated the prayer, and some of them declared the first prayer invalid, then accepted it.
The Shaykh:
What is obligatory upon you is that when you call to your skin, except if you are certain of the correctness of your self regarding the truth and they are mistaken, then you may act upon what you are certain of. So if you are in the state of standing in the fifth [rak'ah] and you are certain that it is the fourth, it is obligatory, and that they are imagining, and you completed on this and you clarified the matter, and your prayer is valid, if Allah wills. But if you are aware of it as the fifth, you realized that it is the fifth, and you knew that it is the fifth, then it is not permissible for you to continue in it, but your prayer is valid because you are ignorant, and the ignorant is excused, but the second time if such a thing happens and you know that it is the fifth, it is not permissible for you to continue in it, it is obligatory upon you to sit at the time of the month, at the time of the salam, then you return and prostrate two prostrations for forgetfulness after the salam, this is what is prescribed.
And their prayer is also valid, except for the one who followed you while he knows that you are the fifth, and he knows the legal ruling also, meaning it is necessary to have two knowledges, the knowledge that it is the fifth, and the second is the knowledge that following the imam does not take place, so his prayer is invalid, but as for the one who is ignorant of one of the two matters, his prayer is valid, is the ignorant excused, and most people are such that they are ignorant.
So let it be that at times he prays with them, and in the fourth rak'ah, after their recitations differed, he said: I swear by Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, and only the rain is from the believers that Allah has for you a drop, and his saying "peace" is easier for every one of the month, so they said their facing of the prayer is one, and it was true from them that they heard it, and Aisha stood, and some of them repeated the prayer, and some of them declared the first prayer invalid, then accepted it.
The Shaykh:
What is obligatory upon you is that when you call to your skin, except if you are certain of the correctness of your self regarding the truth and they are mistaken, then you may act upon what you are certain of. So if you are in the state of standing in the fifth [rak'ah] and you are certain that it is the fourth, it is obligatory, and that they are imagining, and you completed on this and you clarified the matter, and your prayer is valid, if Allah wills. But if you are aware of it as the fifth, you realized that it is the fifth, and you knew that it is the fifth, then it is not permissible for you to continue in it, but your prayer is valid because you are ignorant, and the ignorant is excused, but the second time if such a thing happens and you know that it is the fifth, it is not permissible for you to continue in it, it is obligatory upon you to sit at the time of the month, at the time of the salam, then you return and prostrate two prostrations for forgetfulness after the salam, this is what is prescribed.
And their prayer is also valid, except for the one who followed you while he knows that you are the fifth, and he knows the legal ruling also, meaning it is necessary to have two knowledges, the knowledge that it is the fifth, and the second is the knowledge that following the imam does not take place, so his prayer is invalid, but as for the one who is ignorant of one of the two matters, his prayer is valid, is the ignorant excused, and most people are such that they are ignorant.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 14/7 شرح العقيدة الطحاوية/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:05:04)
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