If two men are praying in a mosque and another man enters wanting to pray, what should he do?

The questioner : ... the mosque where only two men are praying ... ?

The Shaykh : Start the question over from the beginning.

The questioner : ... enters ...

The Shaykh : The mosque where two men are praying, you say. Okay, this is a matter. I told you, is it this matter or another? It is another matter. The previous matter involved rows. Now you are asking, and I think I understood this: two men are praying in the mosque, the imam and a ma'mum beside him, and a third man enters. Is that your question?
The Shaykh: The answer to this is in the Sunnah. This man, if he is a faqih, stands behind the imam. If he is unaware or ignorant, he stands to the left of the imam. If the imam is a faqih, he follows the Sunnah, does this for him, and places him behind him. If he is like them ... the Sunnah, and Allah knows best.

The questioner : And Allah knows best. The brother means another congregation ... ?

The Shaykh : You do not impose your opinions on ...The questioner : You asked and you received the answer here. This is the question. You received the answer? Did you understand it?

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : ... here, as we said: the imam has a prayer beside him on his right. The second or third man enters and stands behind the imam, so that the imam does not have to make many movements. So this third latecomer who follows stands behind the imam. Whoever is on the imam's right either realizes this and moves back in turn, and they line up behind the imam. Or if he does not realize it, it is good for the one who entered to alert him so he joins the imam. So it is perhaps, as I said: in your mind ... a test ... but there is a very big difference. Here it is for reform, there it is for corruption. Here, reform, we achieved a row with two. There, for the sake of two to form a row, we created a gap in the row on his right, so the picture you are asking about differs from the previous picture.