The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-08a

The reciter: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, 'Amr al-Naqqad, and Zuhayr ibn Harb narrated to us, saying: Ibn 'Uyaynah narrated to us. [H] Abu Kuraib narrated to us, saying: Ibn al-Mubarak informed us from Ma'mar, al-Awza'i, Malik ibn Anas, and Yunus. [H] Ibn Numayr narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to us. [H] Ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, saying: 'Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us. All of them narrated from 'Ubayd Allah, and all of these narrated from al-Zuhri from Abu Salama from Abu Hurayrah from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with the same wording as Yahya's narration from Malik. However, the phrase "with the imam" is not in the narration of any of them. In 'Ubayd Allah's narration, he said: .

The Shaykh : Now, in these words that Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) cited, there is an indication that the phrase "with the imam" is anomalous, because a trustworthy narrator contradicted the one who is stronger in terms of the number of narrators. As for "so he caught the entire prayer" , this is not anomalous, even though the one who is stronger contradicted it, because it does not conflict with what was mentioned. Since his statement "he caught the prayer," if he said "he caught the prayer" , achieves the intended meaning, because the intent is that he caught the entire prayer, not the specific rak'ah that he caught with the imam. Thus, the word "entire" is for emphasis and does not conflict with the others. We have previously discussed this several times, stating that all instances of catching up with the prayer are not valid except by catching one rak'ah, contrary to the well-known position of the school of jurisprudence, which states that all instances of catching up are valid by the opening takbir, except for the Friday congregation, which is not caught except by one rak'ah. Our statement "the Friday congregation" means not the time of Friday, because the time of Friday is caught like any other time by what? By the opening takbir. So the rule according to our scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) is that all instances of catching up are valid by the opening takbir, except for the Friday congregation. This means that if a person comes and the imam is praying Friday and he catches less than one rak'ah, he must complete the Zuhr prayer. If he catches one rak'ah, he completes it as Friday prayer.