How one catches up with the congregation behind the imam
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Your Eminence, Shaykh! Some people say: He delays in the house until the prayer is established, and he remains in the house until the imam sits for the final tashahhud, then he comes and says: I caught up with the congregation and the virtue of the congregation by catching up with the tashahhud. What is your opinion?
Our view is that this is deprived of the utmost deprivation, and if a person does not catch up with anything of the congregational prayer except the tashahhud, he has not caught up with the congregational prayer;Due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions): (Whoever catches up with one rak'ah of the prayer has caught up with the prayer) so its implication is: that whoever catches up with less than that has not caught up with it, so this man must be advised and the truth must be made clear to him, perhaps Allah will guide him thereby.
Our view is that this is deprived of the utmost deprivation, and if a person does not catch up with anything of the congregational prayer except the tashahhud, he has not caught up with the congregational prayer;Due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions): (Whoever catches up with one rak'ah of the prayer has caught up with the prayer) so its implication is: that whoever catches up with less than that has not caught up with it, so this man must be advised and the truth must be made clear to him, perhaps Allah will guide him thereby.