The Superiority of Praying in the Mosque with the Larger Congregation
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Question:
This questioner, Abu Khalid, says: Shaykh, is there a preference for the congregation in a mosque if there is one mosque with fifty people and another with two hundred, and both are actually close to my house? So in which one should I pray?
Answer:
Praying with the larger congregation is better; the larger congregation is better. However, if going to the mosque farther from your home results in people having a bad opinion of you, or if people think the imam is not suitable, then if this leads to a bad opinion of you or of the imam, you should refrain from going to the mosque with the larger congregation and pray in the nearby mosque, even if its congregation is smaller. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh
This questioner, Abu Khalid, says: Shaykh, is there a preference for the congregation in a mosque if there is one mosque with fifty people and another with two hundred, and both are actually close to my house? So in which one should I pray?
Answer:
Praying with the larger congregation is better; the larger congregation is better. However, if going to the mosque farther from your home results in people having a bad opinion of you, or if people think the imam is not suitable, then if this leads to a bad opinion of you or of the imam, you should refrain from going to the mosque with the larger congregation and pray in the nearby mosque, even if its congregation is smaller. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/101 — archive.org (10:01)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.