If a man enters and has missed the Maghrib prayer, and another man stands up wanting to give him a voluntary prayer, which of the two is more deserving to lead the other?
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The questioner : He says: If a man enters and has missed the Maghrib prayer, and another man stands up wanting to give him a voluntary prayer, which of the two is more deserving to lead the other? And is there any harm in repeating the Maghrib prayer, which is the odd prayer of the day?
The Shaykh : Yes. This issue is: if a man enters and a person wants to give him a voluntary prayer. If one says that it is not valid for the one performing a voluntary prayer to lead the one performing an obligatory prayer, then it is necessary for the one who entered to be the imam, because he is performing an obligatory prayer and the second is performing a voluntary one. And if one says: it is permissible for the one performing a voluntary prayer to lead the one performing an obligatory prayer—and this is the correct view—he says: the one who is more proficient in reciting the Book of Allah leads them, whether it is the one who entered or the one who was in the mosque.
As for his asking about the Maghrib prayer, whether it is repeated or not, we say: Yes, it is repeated, and it becomes an odd prayer exactly like the imam's prayer. It does not contradict that the first prayer he prayed with the first imam was the odd prayer of the day. And this second one is a repetition. There is no harm on him in repeating it three times, because he only repeated it following his imam.
The Shaykh : Yes. This issue is: if a man enters and a person wants to give him a voluntary prayer. If one says that it is not valid for the one performing a voluntary prayer to lead the one performing an obligatory prayer, then it is necessary for the one who entered to be the imam, because he is performing an obligatory prayer and the second is performing a voluntary one. And if one says: it is permissible for the one performing a voluntary prayer to lead the one performing an obligatory prayer—and this is the correct view—he says: the one who is more proficient in reciting the Book of Allah leads them, whether it is the one who entered or the one who was in the mosque.
As for his asking about the Maghrib prayer, whether it is repeated or not, we say: Yes, it is repeated, and it becomes an odd prayer exactly like the imam's prayer. It does not contradict that the first prayer he prayed with the first imam was the odd prayer of the day. And this second one is a repetition. There is no harm on him in repeating it three times, because he only repeated it following his imam.