The latecomer joining the congregation before the closing salam
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a person enters the mosque and the people are in the last part of the prayer, does he join them before the salam, or does he wait until they finish and then pray alone?
Answer:
If he knows, or it is most likely in his opinion, that people will come to pray with him, he waits for them. But if he does not know of anyone, he joins them in the remainder of the prayer to obtain the reward. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a person enters the mosque and the people are in the last part of the prayer, does he join them before the salam, or does he wait until they finish and then pray alone?
Answer:
If he knows, or it is most likely in his opinion, that people will come to pray with him, he waits for them. But if he does not know of anyone, he joins them in the remainder of the prayer to obtain the reward. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب نجاسة لحم الحيوان الذي لا يؤكل إذا ذبح — islamhouse.com (1:09:54)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.