The Ruling on the Prayer of the One Who Joins Late and What He Catches of the Congregation

The questioner : A question about the announcement you mentioned yesterday regarding the person who comes to prayer late to the congregation. What he catches, he prays, and what he does now to complete the prayer? What is the evidence that he completes what he missed of his prayer? It is not from the congregation's prayer, because if it were from the congregation's prayer, he would complete what he missed of the congregation's prayer. For example, if he arrives at the third rak'ah, he completes the first and second. But if it is from his own prayer, he completes the third and fourth.

The Shaykh : A beautiful devil. From the poor. The one who joins late catches some and misses some.

Another questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : So, this is what he missed; the hadith gives him that it is the completion of his prayer.

Another questioner : Complete, it appeared in it, he

The Shaykh : And they stood to count. It is the issue. I was mentioning. At that time, the fire, its differences, and the time did not help me to enter into any detail in it, so what we adopt is the opinion of the majority of scholars.
The Shaykh: There is no mistake in it. For they say the exact opposite, as we gave an example regarding the Maghrib prayer. Gradually. The one who catches a rak'ah of the Maghrib prayer. According to the Hanafi school, this is the last rak'ah, and therefore when he stands to bring the completion of the prayer, he comes with two rak'ahs, because the two rak'ahs for the one who joins late are the beginning of the prayer. And their evidence for that, which they mentioned and did not mention anything else,
The Shaykh: is that there is a narration in Sahih al-Bukhari with the wording "And what you missed, make up" instead of "So complete." So they held to this wording and said it indicates that what he missed of the prayer he makes up as qada' (making up a missed act of worship). And what the majority responded to them with is that they said the implication of their speech is that it is not with this explicitness. That you interpreted the Prophetic wording "And what you missed, make up" with the technical meaning of qada' (making up a missed act of worship) and not with the linguistic meaning of the word qada' (making up a missed act of worship).
The Shaykh: And it is known to all scholars that the legal terms which are mentioned in the Book and the Sunnah must be interpreted first with the language of the Arabs in which the Qur'an was revealed, then with the language of the Qur'an and the hadith which the jurists call the legal language. The Qur'anic and Prophetic terms must be interpreted with the legal language if it is not possible to interpret them with the Arabic language in which the Qur'an was revealed, because the Qur'an sometimes comes with Arabic terms but bestows upon them legal meanings. So the word prayer and zakah, for example, are from the pure old Arabic terms, but to give them the known meaning in our Shari'ah today, the Arabs do not know that at all. Therefore, the terms of the Book and the Sunnah, the original is that they are interpreted with the Arabic language unless there is a legal language by which they are interpreted. As for interpreting the Qur'anic and hadith terms with technical meanings, this is not permissible because the Qur'an was not revealed with these technical terms. And therefore their understanding of it is like this clarification. They say that his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) is the meaning of the first narration "So complete," because qada' (making up a missed act of worship) in the language of the Qur'an, when it comes, means completion. And they mention some of the known verses in this qada' (making up a missed act of worship), such as His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He) does not mean, so when you make up, meaning the technical meaning which is bringing the worship in other than its known time. No, but it means so when you make up, meaning you complete. Also on this scale, the saying of our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) in the Qur'an, so when you make up the Friday prayer so when you make up the Friday prayer means when you complete it. So is there no difference between "make up" and "complete"?
The Shaykh: "Make up" is the meaning of "complete," and at that time the evidence of the majority stands and rises to interpret the hadith with the meaning that indicates that the prayer of the one who joins late, what he catches behind the imam, is the beginning of his prayer, and the rest is the completion of his prayer. This is the stronger opinion. Yes.