Does the prayer area have the ruling of a mosque?

Question:
This is a questioner for the program who sent a set of questions. In his first question, he asks: Does the prayer area have two rak'ahs of greeting, like the greeting of the mosque? Or is that specific to the mosque only? And is the prayer area considered to take the ruling of a mosque, such as buying and selling in it? Or is it not so?

Answer:
The prayer area does not have the ruling of mosques, so the two rak'ahs are not prescribed for entering it, and there is no harm in buying and selling in it; because it is a place for prayer when needed and is not a mosque. Rather, a mosque is what is prepared for prayer as an endowment (waqf) in which prayer is performed like other mosques. As for a temporary prayer area where the group of a district or a group that has stayed for a specific time prays, and then they depart, this is not called a mosque. So there is no harm in buying and selling in it, and it does not have the greeting of the mosque. Rather, the greeting is for what is prepared as a mosque and an endowment (waqf) for Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) for establishing the prayers in it. Yes.

The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.