If a person enters the mosque, should he pray in the first row, or should he pray facing a pillar and use it as a sutrah, and then go to the first row?

The questioner : If a person enters the mosque, should he pray in the first row and pray without a sutrah, or is it ...

The Shaykh : If it is possible to remain in the first row, there is no harm. If it is possible, there is no harm. He prays facing a pillar and then enters.

The questioner : He stays a little distance from the imam.

The Shaykh : It does no harm as long as he is in the first row.

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : What does he say?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : Who is the one who said this?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : Is this al-Fath with a dha?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : Read...

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : It means Ibn Hajar ...
The reader: Should I read the words of Ibn Hajar?

The Shaykh : Yes, fine. It has passed us by, do you see? It passed us by in the chapter on going to the prayer place without a minbar, the chapter on walking and riding to the 'Id. In this chapter it says: Do you see? I said to 'Ata, do you see, is it a right over the imam? Perhaps it is the chapter before the one I just mentioned, in the chapter on walking and riding to the 'Id. How many chapters before that?
The reader: The chapter on walking and riding.

The Shaykh : In the last hadith of it.

The questioner : He said, I said to 'Ata: Do you see, is it a right over the imam?

The Shaykh : Help each other so that the first one is achieved.
The reader: It was not mentioned, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : It was not mentioned? Did you verify it?
The reader: No.

The Shaykh : In any case, I verified my copy, do you see?

The questioner : ... a verified copy ...

The Shaykh : In the first chapter, a chapter on walking and riding.

The questioner : Chapter ...

The Shaykh : And what is the chapter you have? The imam's sermon.

The questioner : The last chapter.

The Shaykh : The correct one, do you see, is with a fath.