What is the appropriate age at which a boy should be taken to the mosque?

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The questioner : Your Eminence, what is the appropriate age at which a boy should be taken to the mosque?

The Shaykh : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

Command your children to pray at the age of seven, and beat them for it at the age of ten.

مروا صبيانكم بالصلاة لسبع واضربوهم عليها لعشر

Sunan ad-Daraqutni 3:5

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