What is the ruling on praying in the aisles when there are incomplete rows in the Haram?
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The questioner : It is observed that some people, when they are late for prayer in the Haram, pray in the aisles, even though there are rows that have not been completed. What is the ruling?
The Shaykh : This is truly a trial. When you approach the Sacred Mosque or the Prophet’s Mosque, and perhaps other mosques, you find that people are gathered around the doors and the aisles, even though there is ample space in the inner parts of these mosques that could accommodate these people and more. What a person should do is complete the first row, then the next, as the Sunnah directs, and fill the empty spaces in the inner parts of these mosques so that he provides places for his brothers who are coming that they can benefit from.
The questioner : What is the ruling on…?
The Shaykh : The questions should be from a single topic. If there are more than three questions on the paper, take three of them and do not take the rest.
The Shaykh : This is truly a trial. When you approach the Sacred Mosque or the Prophet’s Mosque, and perhaps other mosques, you find that people are gathered around the doors and the aisles, even though there is ample space in the inner parts of these mosques that could accommodate these people and more. What a person should do is complete the first row, then the next, as the Sunnah directs, and fill the empty spaces in the inner parts of these mosques so that he provides places for his brothers who are coming that they can benefit from.
The questioner : What is the ruling on…?
The Shaykh : The questions should be from a single topic. If there are more than three questions on the paper, take three of them and do not take the rest.
Source
دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام لعام 1412 هـ - 9 — binothaimeen.net (58:01)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.