Ruling on leaving the second congregation in order to join the first congregation
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A group of people entered the mosque and found that they had missed the congregation, and the imam was saying the closing salam. They prayed a second congregation, and during that, the imam of the first congregation remembered that he had not completed a unit of prayer, having prayed the midday prayer with only three units. He stood up to complete it. The imam of the second congregation hesitated: should he break off the prayer and join the first congregation, or continue the prayer? The imam bowed and prostrated and said the closing salam, and this man was still hesitating whether to break off the prayer or not. Then he broke off his prayer due to his hesitation in intention, and he and his congregation prayed again from the beginning.My question: Are they required to break off their prayer and join the first congregation?
I see that he should break off his prayer and join the first congregation.And this is a rare occurrence, meaning: You need to write this in the new compilation on jurisprudence, because it has not come to my attention in the words of the previous jurists. However, we have not grasped everything, but it is a rare issue.So we say: For these people, it is better to break off their prayer and join the imam; because by doing so, they gain the multitude of the congregation, and they gain the primary congregation which has the virtue of twenty-seven degrees; because their second congregation does not have twenty-seven degrees, but it is better than praying alone. As the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (The prayer of a man with another man is purer than his prayer alone, and his prayer with two men is purer than his prayer with one man, and the more there are, the more beloved it is to Allah) So they do not attain the twenty-seven degrees, but they are better off than if they had prayed individually.
So I say: The best in this situation is for them to break off their prayer and join the imam to catch the unit of prayer, and when he says the salam, they complete what remains.
As for this one who hesitated, his prayer is not invalidated by the hesitation; because he did not hesitate about entering, he only hesitated about breaking off. And hesitation about breaking off does not harm until he actually breaks off. As for hesitation about entering, yes, it prevents entering.So pay attention to this rule: Hesitation about entering prevents entering, and hesitation about breaking off does not break off. Why? Because the default in the first case is not entering; as long as you are hesitating, you do not enter. And in the second case, the default is not breaking off, so you continue until you break off.
Therefore: If a fasting person intends to eat or drink, but does not eat and does not drink, is his fasting invalidated or not invalidated? It is not invalidated.
If a praying person intends to break off his prayer because he forgot an appointment, but he did not break it off? His prayer is not invalidated until he actually breaks it off, until he intends to exit from it.So pay attention to this benefit: Hesitation about breaking off is not like breaking off, and hesitation about entering is not entering.
I see that he should break off his prayer and join the first congregation.And this is a rare occurrence, meaning: You need to write this in the new compilation on jurisprudence, because it has not come to my attention in the words of the previous jurists. However, we have not grasped everything, but it is a rare issue.So we say: For these people, it is better to break off their prayer and join the imam; because by doing so, they gain the multitude of the congregation, and they gain the primary congregation which has the virtue of twenty-seven degrees; because their second congregation does not have twenty-seven degrees, but it is better than praying alone. As the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (The prayer of a man with another man is purer than his prayer alone, and his prayer with two men is purer than his prayer with one man, and the more there are, the more beloved it is to Allah) So they do not attain the twenty-seven degrees, but they are better off than if they had prayed individually.
So I say: The best in this situation is for them to break off their prayer and join the imam to catch the unit of prayer, and when he says the salam, they complete what remains.
As for this one who hesitated, his prayer is not invalidated by the hesitation; because he did not hesitate about entering, he only hesitated about breaking off. And hesitation about breaking off does not harm until he actually breaks off. As for hesitation about entering, yes, it prevents entering.So pay attention to this rule: Hesitation about entering prevents entering, and hesitation about breaking off does not break off. Why? Because the default in the first case is not entering; as long as you are hesitating, you do not enter. And in the second case, the default is not breaking off, so you continue until you break off.
Therefore: If a fasting person intends to eat or drink, but does not eat and does not drink, is his fasting invalidated or not invalidated? It is not invalidated.
If a praying person intends to break off his prayer because he forgot an appointment, but he did not break it off? His prayer is not invalidated until he actually breaks it off, until he intends to exit from it.So pay attention to this benefit: Hesitation about breaking off is not like breaking off, and hesitation about entering is not entering.