The person who prays the tarawih or night prayer at home and does not pray it in the mosque with the congregation, on the grounds that it is a voluntary prayer, is his prayer in congregation rewarded twenty-seven times?
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The questioner : As for the person who prays the tarawih or night prayer at home and does not pray it in the mosque with the congregation, on the grounds that it is a voluntary prayer, is his prayer in congregation rewarded twenty-seven times?
The Shaykh : As for the preference of praying the obligatory prayer in congregation over praying it alone by twenty-seven times, there is no doubt in this; the hadith establishing this is authentic. As for the voluntary prayers in which congregation is recommended, it is possible to say that they are also multiplied due to the generality of the hadith, and it is possible that they are better, but we do not assert the specific merit of twenty-seven degrees. However, there is no doubt that they are better than praying alone. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you.
The Shaykh : As for the preference of praying the obligatory prayer in congregation over praying it alone by twenty-seven times, there is no doubt in this; the hadith establishing this is authentic. As for the voluntary prayers in which congregation is recommended, it is possible to say that they are also multiplied due to the generality of the hadith, and it is possible that they are better, but we do not assert the specific merit of twenty-seven degrees. However, there is no doubt that they are better than praying alone. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you.