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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Greeting the mosque during the prohibited times

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, we are students who come to this mosque. It is a vowed mosque. [It is the time for] the 'Asr prayer. Or some of our classmates come between us. And [the time for] Maghrib, so he does not pray. And [there is] a message from 'Adil. Two messages about greeting the mosque. On the grounds that it is a prohibited time, so what is the correct ruling, may Allah grant you success.

Answer:
The matter is broad if he comes after the contract [of the prayer]. If they follow the opinion of those who say that the greeting of the mosque should be prayed, they pray the greeting. And if they follow the opinion of those who hold that it is not prayed during the prohibited times, that is permissible for them, according to what appears stronger to them. They are students of knowledge; they take what appears stronger to them, and there is a strong disagreement with equal sides. The student of knowledge chooses or prefers what appears stronger to him. The default is that the greeting of the mosque is a recommended practice (sunnah). Even if he sits, he sees its permissibility, and there is nothing on him, because it is a recommended practice. A recommended practice is not one whose doer is blamed, nor is one whose leaver is punished. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/115 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (50:50)

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