The ruling on a person who missed the prayer following one who joined late
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. The listener, Qamar al-Din al-Shaykh from Sudan, sent a message saying: If I arrive at the mosque and find that the imam has finished the prayer and there is a person who joined late, do I pray with him? Or how do you guide me? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is better for you to pray alone or with a group of others who missed the prayer, even if it is just one person. So if there is someone like you who missed the prayer, you pray with them. And if you do not find anyone, it is better for you to pray alone. And if you enter the prayer with the one who joined late and consider him your imam, this is a matter of disagreement among the scholars. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. The listener, Qamar al-Din al-Shaykh from Sudan, sent a message saying: If I arrive at the mosque and find that the imam has finished the prayer and there is a person who joined late, do I pray with him? Or how do you guide me? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is better for you to pray alone or with a group of others who missed the prayer, even if it is just one person. So if there is someone like you who missed the prayer, you pray with them. And if you do not find anyone, it is better for you to pray alone. And if you enter the prayer with the one who joined late and consider him your imam, this is a matter of disagreement among the scholars. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4592- حكم ائتمام المتخلف عن الصلاة بالمسبوق - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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