The ruling on one who catches the 'Asr prayer but has not prayed the Zuhr

The questioner : What is the ruling for a man who slept, woke up, and then caught up with the mosque, finding the congregation had already started the 'Asr prayer, while he had not yet prayed the Zuhr? Does he join them with the intention of the 'Asr prayer? This is what is understood from the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and then he prays the Zuhr afterwards, and does not repeat the 'Asr; because there is a prohibition against performing the same obligatory prayer twice. What is the ruling in this matter?

The Shaykh : We do not understand from the hadith anything other than the prohibition of engaging in voluntary prayer when the obligatory prayer has been called for. As for a case like this, where a man comes to the mosque and the people are in the 'Asr prayer, and he has not yet prayed the Zuhr, he starts with the Zuhr prayer and then follows it with the 'Asr prayer. The hadith you mentioned does not cover this case, because the intended meaning is "no voluntary prayer." As for the obligatory prayer that was due in its time, here there is another violation, which is taking the prayer out of its time. As for the doubt you raised, that there is no prayer twice in one day, this doubt is not strong. Even if someone said that one should perform the Zuhr prayer after the 'Asr, and then pray the 'Asr, we do not hold this view. But if someone said that, his statement would not be refuted by his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) because the intended meaning of the negation mentioned in this hadith is the negation of two obligatory prayers in one time. (Peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No prayer twice in one day." The intended meaning is that it is two obligatory prayers for one time, with the intention of the obligatory, with the intention of the obligatory.
As for an incidental intention, like what is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in some hadiths regarding the command to repeat the prayer, such as the hadith in Muslim, for example: "There will be rulers over you who delay the prayer or kill it [let it pass] from its time. So when you catch them, pray the prayer in its time, and then pray it with them, and it will be a voluntary prayer for you." This is the usual case for the obligatory prayer, but with the intention of a voluntary prayer. Likewise, the hadith of the two men who prayed in Mina, then came to the Musjid al-Khaif while the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was praying the Fajr. They stood to the side, and when he finished the prayer, he said to them: "Are you not Muslims?" They said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "What prevented you from praying with us?" They said: "O Messenger of Allah, we had already prayed in our tents." He said (peace and blessings be upon him)
So the intended meaning of the hadith is that one should pray two prayers with the name of a specific time, like the Fajr prayer, for example, with each of the prayers having the intention of the obligatory. This is what is prohibited. But if he prayed before that with the intention of the obligatory, and then prayed it with the intention of the voluntary, there is no prohibition in that at all, because of the hadith "No prayer twice in one day," because the intended meaning of "twice in one day" is two obligatory prayers, with each of the prayers being... We do not hold this school of thought, but rather we say he prays the Zuhr in its time behind the one who is praying the 'Asr, and then he stands up and prays the 'Asr. Is that clear? Yes. Not clear.