Is the virtue of congregational prayer contingent upon the fulfillment of what is mentioned in the hadith?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : ...the virtue of the congregation... and that is that whoever performs ablution and perfects it...
The Shaykh : The apparent meaning is that the virtue is not attained unless it is done in this manner.
The questioner : I mean, not in the prayer itself.
The Shaykh : You are asking whether this virtue is not attained unless it is done in this manner But the hadith of Ibn 'Umar is general, so the one from Abu Hurayrah is meant as a description of the actual situation. If it is assumed that this is a necessary condition and that it is required for the doubling of the reward that he leaves his house in a state of purity, then it is said regarding the generality of the hadith of Ibn 'Umar that there is an addition to be acted upon, just as there was an addition in the number, so there is also an addition in the manner.
The Shaykh : The apparent meaning is that the virtue is not attained unless it is done in this manner.
The questioner : I mean, not in the prayer itself.
The Shaykh : You are asking whether this virtue is not attained unless it is done in this manner