Hastening to Prayer at the Adhan and the Ruling on Moving Afterward
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Question:
Another questioner asks: Is it better for an employee to hasten to prayer upon hearing the adhan, or to wait to complete some transactions? What is the ruling on moving afterward other than for the rawatib?
Answer:
Yes, when the mu'adhdhin calls, it stops the works; they are postponed. The Muslims go to perform the prayer,[Al-Jumu'ah 62:9], [An-Nur 24:37]. It is reported in the athar that they used to sell and buy, but when they heard the adhan, they kept their goods and turned to the prayer. So a Muslim, whether employed or not, when he hears the call, he responds and postpones the transactions until after the prayer. He performs the rawatib after it, and before it if it is the Zuhr, which has a rawatib before it and a rawatib after it. As for performing voluntary prayers in addition to the rawatib, this is not permissible for him, because this halts the work. Yes.
Another questioner asks: Is it better for an employee to hasten to prayer upon hearing the adhan, or to wait to complete some transactions? What is the ruling on moving afterward other than for the rawatib?
Answer:
Yes, when the mu'adhdhin calls, it stops the works; they are postponed. The Muslims go to perform the prayer,
when [the adhan] is called for the prayer on the day of Jumu'ah [Friday], then proceed to the remembrance of Allah
إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلَاةِ مِن يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ فَاسْعَوْا إِلَىٰ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِneither commerce nor sale distracts from the remembrance of Allah and performance of prayer and giving of zakah
لَّا تُلْهِيهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ وَلَا بَيْعٌ عَن ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ وَإِيتَاءِ الزَّكَاةِ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/194 — archive.org (4:43)
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