Does the follower catch up with the congregation if he catches up with the imam while he is prostrating in the prostration of forgetfulness?

The questioner : Does the follower catch up with the congregation with the imam when he prostrates with him in the prostration of forgetfulness?

The Shaykh : I mean, does it mean he caught up with the congregation?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Of course, he caught up with the congregation, but each person is according to his own case. The one who catches up with the congregation at the first takbir, and the one who catches up with the congregation before the imam’s taslim; there is no doubt that these two are not equal, and there are degrees between them. Do you understand me? So each of them has caught up with the congregation, but between being one who catches up with its beginning and being one who catches up with its end; and the Messenger (peace be upon him) said in the authentic hadith agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim: . So this is the one who caught up with the imam, even if he prostrated the two prostrations of forgetfulness; the important thing is before the taslim, which is a pillar of the prayer, as in the authentic hadith: . So this is the one who caught up with the imam before he said the taslim; he has caught up with the congregational prayer, but what he missed, he has to make up. So in the four-rak'ah prayer, for example, he missed the four rak'ahs, so he makes them up and performs them, and he is one who caught up with the congregation in a rank lower than the rank of the one who caught up with the takbir of intention.
And it came in "Sunan al-Nasa'i" — and it is a very important hadith — from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: . So this is the one who, even if he entered the mosque and the imam has already said the taslim, a virtue is written for him, but this virtue, without a doubt, is not like the virtue of the one who caught up with the congregation at the first takbir, or the one who caught up with all the rak'ahs except the first, and so on. The ranks and degrees have various proportions with Allah (Mighty and Majestic); so He does not wrong people in anything. So from here it becomes clear that the one who entered the mosque and did not catch up with the prayer has a reward, and the one who entered the mosque and caught up with the prayer before the taslim has a better reward, and so on, until you return to the beginning of the prayer.
Yes.