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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Analogy of congregational prayer to Friday prayer regarding the prohibition of repeating the congregation in the same mosque.

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The Shaykh : As for the transmitted evidence, we found that along with the aforementioned hadith of Abu Hurayrah, which states in its first part:
I intended لقد همَمْتُ
= -- Treat your neighbor with kindness -- =, we found, along with the aforementioned hadith of Abu Hurayrah:
I intend that I should command a person to lead people in prayer لقد همَمْتُ أن آمُرَ رجلًا فيصلي بالناس
Sahih Muslim 652
, up to the end of the hadith, which includes
They would have attended it لَشَهِدَها
, meaning the 'Isha' prayer; we found, along with this hadith, a similar hadith regarding the Friday prayer, narrated by Imam Muslim in his *Sahih* from the hadith of 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, in which he said - may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him - :
I intended to order a man to lead the people in the Friday prayer, and then I would have burned down the houses of those who lagged behind in the Friday prayer لقد همَمْتُ أن آمُرَ رجلًا فيصلي بالناس صلاة الجمعة ، ثم أحرِّق على أناسٍ بيوتَهم يتخلَّفون عن صلاة الجمعة
. So, just as the Messenger - may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him - spoke regarding the congregational prayer, he spoke the same thing in full regarding the Friday prayer.
And this indicates to us two things. The first thing is that the congregational prayer is an obligation, just like the Friday prayer. Of course, the similarity here does not necessarily have to be one hundred percent; because saying “Zayd is like a lion” means from a certain perspective. Therefore, I mean that the congregational prayer is like the Friday prayer in terms of its obligatoriness, but obligatoriness has degrees. This is what the hadith indicates first. Second, just as the Friday prayer is not repeated in the same mosque, and therefore he intended to burn the houses of those who lagged behind it, so too the congregational prayer is not repeated; and therefore he intended to burn the houses of those who lagged behind it.
Source www.al-albany.com

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