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Praying the obligatory prayer in congregation, then another congregation is established and one joins them with the intention of a voluntary prayer

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good. The caller from Riyadh says: In the prayer halls of some hospitals and the like, the prayer is established four times or more. If I have prayed with the first or second congregation, is it permissible for me to pray with those who come after them with the intention of a voluntary prayer? Because that is more enlivening for me than performing the voluntary prayer alone. Then, is it permissible for me to pray a third time with the intention of a voluntary prayer as well, so that I would have completed four rak'ahs before the midday prayer and prayed four after it?

Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that. The default is that the prayer of the one performing a voluntary prayer behind a congregation that has already prayed is valid. So if you intend that your second prayer is a voluntary prayer, and that it is the regular voluntary prayer (rawatib) of four rak'ahs after the midday prayer, then there is no blame on you for that. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5069- صلى الفرض في جماعة ثم أقيمت جماعة أخرى فدخل معهم بنية النافلة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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