I entered the prayer intending the two rak'ahs of the ablution, but a person completed the prayer with me, so I recited aloud and completed three rak'ahs as the obligatory Maghrib prayer, even though I had already prayed it. What is the ruling?
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The questioner : I entered the prayer intending the two rak'ahs of the sunnah of the ablution, but a person completed the prayer with me, so I recited aloud and completed three rak'ahs before Maghrib, even though I had already prayed it?
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : That is, a new intention occurred to him, different from the intention on which he based the prayer. Naturally, this is not permissible in Islam, because the intention changed during the prayer, and a change of intention invalidates the prayer from its origin. We have nothing else; that is all we have.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : That is, a new intention occurred to him, different from the intention on which he based the prayer. Naturally, this is not permissible in Islam, because the intention changed during the prayer, and a change of intention invalidates the prayer from its origin. We have nothing else; that is all we have.