The ruling on cutting off the prayer if one joins the congregation

The questioner : Thank you, of course, thank you.

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : What? Cutting off the prayer if he wants to hear the adhan?

The Shaykh : I mean, if he joins the congregation. Excellent. Then he joins the congregation; Imam Ahmad said, “What is more pleasing to me is that he cuts it off completely, because if he turns it into a voluntary prayer, he cannot be sure that he will not miss a rak'ah or two with this congregation.”

The questioner : He enters the mosque. How?

The Shaykh : How? I say he cuts it off.

The questioner : Did you see the rain?

The Shaykh : Imam Ahmad said, “What is more pleasing to me is that he cuts it off, that he cuts it off.”

The questioner : If he had not been there, if he had entered with them, yes, how does he enter with them if he did not see it?

The Shaykh : Yes, he enters with them as a ma'mum.