Accompanying a patient in the hospital: Is it permissible for him to miss the congregational prayer?
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Question:
Regarding, Honorable Shaykh, the person accompanying a patient who is hospitalized. The questioner says: My relative is in the hospital, and I am accompanying him. I am truly troubled by a question: when I go to the mosque to pray the obligatory prayer, he orders me to stay and cries, saying, "Pray with me." Am I excused from missing the congregational prayer because I am maintaining the prayers at their times?
Answer:
If he needs you to stay with him, you pray with him and you are excused, and praise be to Allah. If he needs you, you stay with him and pray with him, and you are excused. Yes.
Regarding, Honorable Shaykh, the person accompanying a patient who is hospitalized. The questioner says: My relative is in the hospital, and I am accompanying him. I am truly troubled by a question: when I go to the mosque to pray the obligatory prayer, he orders me to stay and cries, saying, "Pray with me." Am I excused from missing the congregational prayer because I am maintaining the prayers at their times?
Answer:
If he needs you to stay with him, you pray with him and you are excused, and praise be to Allah. If he needs you, you stay with him and pray with him, and you are excused. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1404 - المرافق للمريض في المستشفى، هل يجوز له أن يتخلف عن صلاة الجماعة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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