Ruling on interrupting voluntary prayer without a valid excuse
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Your Eminence! Regarding voluntary prayer, is it permissible for a person to interrupt it without a valid excuse once he has started it?
The scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said: Anyone who enters into a voluntary prayer may interrupt it; because it is voluntary, and continuing in it is voluntary, but it is disliked to interrupt it without a valid purpose.And they cited evidence for that: (That the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) broke his fast when he entered his home and found food with his family, so he said: "Show it to me, for I have spent the morning fasting," and he ate).
And they also cited evidence: That voluntary prayer is an addition; if a person performs it, his deed is more complete, and if he does not perform it, there is no blame on him, except that Hajj and 'Umrah are excluded from this, for beginning their voluntary acts is binding.For this reason, Allah the Exalted called that a vow and said: [Hajj: 29] And the Exalted said: [al-Baqarah: 196] He said this before Hajj and 'Umrah were made obligatory.But as I told you: He should not interrupt it except for a valid purpose.
The scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said: Anyone who enters into a voluntary prayer may interrupt it; because it is voluntary, and continuing in it is voluntary, but it is disliked to interrupt it without a valid purpose.And they cited evidence for that: (That the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) broke his fast when he entered his home and found food with his family, so he said: "Show it to me, for I have spent the morning fasting," and he ate).
And they also cited evidence: That voluntary prayer is an addition; if a person performs it, his deed is more complete, and if he does not perform it, there is no blame on him, except that Hajj and 'Umrah are excluded from this, for beginning their voluntary acts is binding.For this reason, Allah the Exalted called that a vow and said: