Reading the statement of Imam al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) regarding what he transmitted: "

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The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "And from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

A man's prayer in congregation is more valuable than twenty degrees and some above them as compared with his prayer in his house and his market, for when he performs ablution doing it well, then goes out to the mosque, and he is impelled (to do so) only by (the love of congregational) prayer, he has no other objective before him but prayer. He does not take a step without being raised a degree for it and having a sin remitted for it, till he enters the mosque, and when he is busy in prayer after having entered the mosque. the angels continue to invoke blessing on him as long as he is in his place of worship. saying: O Allah, show him mercy, and pardon him! Accept his repentance (and the angels continue this supplication for him) so long as he does not do any harm in it, or as long as his ablution is not broken.

صلاة الرجل في جماعة تزيد على صلاته في سوقه وبيته بضعا وعشرين درجة ، وذلك أنَّ أحدهم إذا توضأ فأحسن الوضوء ، ثم أتى المسجد لا يريد إلا الصلاة ، لا ينهزه إلا الصلاة : لم يخطُ خُطوة إلا رفع له بها درجة ، وحُط عنه بها خطيئة حتى يدخل المسجد ، فإذا دخل المسجد كان في الصلاة ما كانت الصلاة هي تحبسُه ، والملائكة يصلون على أحدكم ما دام في مجلسه الذي صلى فيه ، يقولون : اللهم ارحمه ، اللهم اغفر له ، اللهم تب عليه ، ما لم يؤذِ فيه ، ما لم يحدث فيه

Sahih Muslim 649f

, agreed upon, and this is the wording of Muslim".

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