(If one of you enters the mosque and the people are bowing); how is this?

The questioner : The Shaykh: the hadith; how is this?

The Shaykh : Its completion is that he should crawl?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : The hadith is authentic.

The questioner : Do you act upon it, O Shaykh, or do you not act upon it?

The Shaykh : Yes? May Allah forgive you!

The questioner : May Allah bless you.

The Shaykh : You need to repent.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, but O Shaykh, excuse me, this is well-known.

The Shaykh : I know.

The questioner : Excuse me, I am inquiring.

The Shaykh : I am saying "excuse me" with "excuse me," as you intend one thing and I intend another.

The questioner : May Allah bless you.

The Shaykh : I intend - also - the word of Imam al-Shafi'i; when someone said to him: Do you act upon the hadith? ... He said: "Do you see me leaving the church and having tightened the belt around my waist?" It is acted upon because there is no contradiction to it.

Another questioner : I came across a report from Ibn Mas'ud that he used to crawl while bowing.

The Shaykh: Who was he?

The questioner : He used to crawl while bowing, "If he entered the mosque and found the people bowing, he would crawl while bowing"; Zayd ibn Thabit in "al-Muwatta."

The Shaykh : Yes, this supports the...

The questioner : Is this authentic as well?

The Shaykh : Yes, that is authentic from Ibn Mas'ud, Zayd ibn Thabit, and Abdullah ibn Umar; four of the Companions of the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - acted upon this hadith. In fact, something is authentic from Ibn Mas'ud that I think many students of knowledge - indeed, from the people of knowledge - are in need of coming to know it and not asking whether to act upon it or not? The report says that Ibn Mas'ud entered the mosque ... and crawled, so he caught up with the imam while he was bowing, then when the imam said the closing salam, he said it with him. So a man stood up wanting to come for a rak'ah, but he pulled him back and said to him: Sit down, for you have caught up with the rak'ah. So in this mawquf hadith, it is that , and that whoever wants...

Another questioner: Our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Yes, and upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings and His forgiveness; welcome.
The Shaykh: So in this report, the one who catches up with the bowing is a catcher of the rak'ah; even if he missed the al-Fatihah. Some of them wrote treatises on the opposite of that, and among them are some of the Maghribi Ghumariyyah, I think you know something about them. So this report establishes by the action of this Companion that his knowledge encompassed that even if he missed the pillar of reciting al-Fatihah. And upon that acted a group of the Companions, and at their head Abu Bakr al-Siddiq; that whoever catches up with the bowing has caught up with the rak'ah. There is no one who contradicts him. And therefore, here I say what I said in some previous lectures: that if a view or action is established from some of the Companions, and there is nothing that contradicts it in the explicit, authentic Sunnah; at that time, it is obligatory to act upon it. And there is nothing here that contradicts the sayings of these Companions except generalities. At that time, we say these generalities were not acted upon. Look at how much this rule is connected to many branches. If the student of knowledge does not master it...The student : ...he will deviate from the truth in all of them.

Another questioner : ; or not ?

The Shaykh : in the stronger of the opinions; yes, what is the matter?

The questioner : Is there no contradiction? Does it contradict the action in the other hadith?

The Shaykh : Suppose there is a contradiction; what do we do? We reconcile. Is the reconciliation by striking one of them? No. So the man does not have this. The hadith of Abu Bakrah...

Another questioner : May Allah forgive us and you.

The Shaykh : Welcome to you both, father and son.

Another questioner : May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : Welcome.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you. So it has become clear that there is no contradiction between them; that is: there is no need to reconcile between them; as long as there is no contradiction between them.
Please proceed.