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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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If a woman goes to the Eid prayer ground and finds that the prayer has ended and the sermon has begun, does she make up the prayer or listen to the sermon?

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The questioner : If a woman goes to the Eid prayer ground and finds that the prayer has ended and the sermon has begun, does she make up the prayer or listen to the sermon?

The Shaykh : She should pray the greeting of the mosque (Tahiyyat al-Masjid) based on the general meaning of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) statement:
If anyone of you enters a Mosque, he should not sit until he has offered a tworak` at prayer. إذا دخل أحدكم المسجد فلا يجلس حتى يصلي ركعتين
Sahih al-Bukhari 1167
and she should be content with that. As for making up the Eid prayer, the correct view is that it is not made up, because it is a prayer prescribed in this specific manner. If a person catches it in this manner, that is fine; but if he does not catch it, he does not make it up. If someone asks: How do you say that the Eid prayer is not made up, while the Friday prayer is made up? The answer is that the Friday prayer is also not made up; rather, the midday prayer (Dhuhr) is prayed in its place, which is originally the obligatory prayer for that time. Yes.

The questioner : May Allah reward you. This questioner is Abdullah from Riyadh, and he says:
Source alathar.net

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