The Sunnah Prayer of Fajr When the Call to Prayer Is Made
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The questioner:
Allahu Akbar. His other question says: In the Fajr prayer, we sometimes enter the mosque and find some people praying the sunnah while the iqamah is being called. Should we tell them it is wrong?
The Shaykh:
No. He should be instructed to do so. He should be instructed to pray the sunnah of Fajr before Fajr, after the dawn breaks and before the iqamah. He should pray the rawatib of Fajr, which is a confirmed sunnah.
The questioner:
During the iqamah.
The Shaykh:
During the iqamah, one does not enter into a prayer. Once the prayer is called for, there is no prayer except the obligatory one. Yes, so one is forbidden from doing so if he is praying while the prayer is being called for. If he is praying the rawatib (regular voluntary prayers) and the prayer is called for, he enters into it, or if he says he is praying the greeting of the mosque and prays after the mu'adhdhin has made the iqamah, this is forbidden. Yes, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 421Sahih (Darussalam)
Allahu Akbar. His other question says: In the Fajr prayer, we sometimes enter the mosque and find some people praying the sunnah while the iqamah is being called. Should we tell them it is wrong?
The Shaykh:
No. He should be instructed to do so. He should be instructed to pray the sunnah of Fajr before Fajr, after the dawn breaks and before the iqamah. He should pray the rawatib of Fajr, which is a confirmed sunnah.
The questioner:
During the iqamah.
The Shaykh:
During the iqamah, one does not enter into a prayer. Once the prayer is called for, there is no prayer except the obligatory one. Yes, so one is forbidden from doing so if he is praying while the prayer is being called for. If he is praying the rawatib (regular voluntary prayers) and the prayer is called for, he enters into it, or if he says he is praying the greeting of the mosque and prays after the mu'adhdhin has made the iqamah, this is forbidden. Yes, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
When the Iqamah has been called for the Salat then there is no Salat except the obligatory.
إذا أقيمت الصلاة فلا صلاة إلا المكتوبة
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/197 — archive.org (8:38)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.