The ruling on performing the obligatory prayer before its preceding sunnah

Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner, Umm 'Abdullah from al-Ras, sent a number of questions. In the first one, she says: I ask the Honorable Shaykh about the sunnah prayer before the obligatory prayer. When I am late for the obligatory prayer, perhaps she means the preceding rawatib, she says: for one reason or another, then I want to pray. So, do I perform the sunnah before the fard, or do I pray the fard only?

Answer:
Yes, you come to the sunnah and then you come to the fard. This is because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he and his Companions slept through the Fajr prayer on some of their travels and were not woken up until the heat of the sun, he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the mu'adhdhin to give the adhan, then they prayed the rawatib, then he ordered the mu'adhdhin to give the iqamah, and he led them in the Fajr prayer. Yes.