The Criterion for Distance in Responding to the Call for Congregational Prayer
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Question:
A questioner asks: Is there a specific distance or criterion such that if a mosque is farther than that distance, it is not obligatory for him to respond to the call for congregational prayer?
Answer:
The criterion is hearing the adhan, my brother.Sunan Ibn Majah 793Sahih (Darussalam). Sunan Abi Dawud 551, so the criterion is hearing the call with the unamplified voice, not with the microphone; the unamplified voice.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
A questioner asks: Is there a specific distance or criterion such that if a mosque is farther than that distance, it is not obligatory for him to respond to the call for congregational prayer?
Answer:
The criterion is hearing the adhan, my brother.
Whoever hears the call and does not come, his prayer is not valid, except for those who have an excuse.
من سمع النداء فلم يأته فلا صلاة له إلا من عذرhe was asked what an excuse consisted of and replied that it was fear or illness
وما العذر؟ قال خوف أو مرضThe presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
Source
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