The meaning of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “May Allah increase you in good, and do not repeat it.”

The Shaykh : He said: This means do not rush and do not bow before you reach the row. The meaning is not “do not bow if you find us already bowing,” because if that were the meaning, it would contradict the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): And by this we know that when Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him) caught up with the bowing, he had caught up with the unit of prayer, and this situation is an exception to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): So we say that the opening of the Book is dropped from a person if he catches up with the imam while he is bowing; it is dropped from him because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not tell Abu Bakrah to make up the unit of prayer in which he did not catch up with the recitation of the Fatihah. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) knew that he had only rushed in order to catch up with the bowing, which is what allows one to catch up with the unit of prayer. So this surah is an exception to the generality of the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him):