What is the ruling on praying the obligatory prayer twice in one day? With an explanation of the weakness of the hadith: “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him not stand in places of suspicion.”

The Shaykh : ... Perhaps this is also appropriate, and one thing brings to mind another. It has come in an authentic hadith that an obligatory prayer is not to be prayed twice in one day, and it is not permissible for a Muslim to pray the 'Isha' prayer twice. This is the principle. If he prays a second time, he has defied and competed with Allah and His Messenger in His saying, peace and blessings be upon him. Are there not many texts, not just one, in which there is a command to repeat the prayer that the Muslim had already prayed? The answer is yes. And I said, one thing brings to mind another. We are now on the threshold of Hajj, on the threshold of performing the obligatory Hajj. It has come in the Muwatta of Malik and in some of the Sunan that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed the Fajr prayer in the Musjid al-Khaif. When he finished the prayer, he found two men whose position indicated that they had not been among those praying with the Muslim congregation. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called out to them and said to them: They said, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah.” He said: ? They said, “O Messenger of Allah, we had prayed in our tents.” So he said, peace and blessings be upon him: . So this is a command to repeat that prayer, or to repeat that prayer which they had prayed in their tents. Why? Because their separation from the Muslim congregation in the mosque makes the congregation suspect that these men are not of them. Therefore, it is not permissible for a Muslim to stand in places of suspicion. And it has been said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him not stand in places of suspicion.” I say, and it has been said, to give you a notice that this is not a Prophetic hadith, even though its meaning is reasonable and acceptable, as I cited, or as it is supported by this hadith of Musjid al-Khaif. So, if a person has prayed the obligatory prayer in his house or in his shop, but he did not pray it with the Muslim congregation in the mosque, and then he enters the mosque and the prayer is being performed, it is not permissible for him to move to a side of the mosque claiming that he has already prayed the obligatory prayer, especially if he has some knowledge of the first hadith: . So he might say to himself, “It is not permissible for me to pray the obligatory prayer a second time.” We say to them, yes, that is so, except if you enter the mosque of the congregation and find them praying the obligatory prayer that you prayed alone. In that case, the first saying of his, peace and blessings be upon him, does not include you. Rather, this case in which you are, the case of entering the mosque while the congregational prayer is being performed, is an exception to it. So you must join them. First, you gain the virtue of the congregation, which is five or twenty-seven degrees, and then you remove from yourself the suspicion that might be attached to you, while you are innocent of it. This is what the research required. I have prolonged this upon you, but perhaps there is benefit and reminder in it, and the reminder benefits the believers. And I do not know if you have any other questions? Yes.

The questioner : Many, especially in Hajj.