What is the ruling on praying a voluntary prayer behind someone who missed the Fajr prayer in order to gain the reward of the congregation, even though it is a time of prohibition?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
We love you for the sake of Allah, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah love you for the sake of which you loved us.
The questioner : My question is: A man prayed Fajr in congregation, then another man who had been late for the congregational prayer asked the first man to pray with him as a voluntary prayer so that the second man could gain the reward of the congregation. What is the ruling on this?
The Shaykh : There is no harm if a man enters after the Fajr prayer or after the 'Asr prayer and has missed the prayer, and another man stands up with him to pray with him, giving him a gift.
The student: It is a time of prohibition.
The Shaykh : Because if a voluntary prayer has a cause, there is no time of prohibition for it. This is a rule, so understand it: "Every voluntary prayer that has a cause has no time of prohibition", such as the greeting of the mosque, prostration of recitation, the prayer of istikharah for a matter that is about to be missed, giving charity to a person who entered after the 'Asr prayer and after the Fajr prayer, and the like of this.
I have pointed out in a previous session that offering the greeting before asking a question is not the way of the Companions, and that people would come to the Messenger of Allah and ask him questions without greeting him. The greeting is for the one who arrives; if a person comes to someone or passes by him, he greets him. But if a person is sitting with you and he greets you, that is not from the Sunnah.
We love you for the sake of Allah, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah love you for the sake of which you loved us.
The questioner : My question is: A man prayed Fajr in congregation, then another man who had been late for the congregational prayer asked the first man to pray with him as a voluntary prayer so that the second man could gain the reward of the congregation. What is the ruling on this?
The Shaykh : There is no harm if a man enters after the Fajr prayer or after the 'Asr prayer and has missed the prayer, and another man stands up with him to pray with him, giving him a gift.
The student: It is a time of prohibition.
The Shaykh : Because if a voluntary prayer has a cause, there is no time of prohibition for it. This is a rule, so understand it: "Every voluntary prayer that has a cause has no time of prohibition", such as the greeting of the mosque, prostration of recitation, the prayer of istikharah for a matter that is about to be missed, giving charity to a person who entered after the 'Asr prayer and after the Fajr prayer, and the like of this.
I have pointed out in a previous session that offering the greeting before asking a question is not the way of the Companions, and that people would come to the Messenger of Allah and ask him questions without greeting him. The greeting is for the one who arrives; if a person comes to someone or passes by him, he greets him. But if a person is sitting with you and he greets you, that is not from the Sunnah.