How the group responds when one person greets them
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Question:
The questioner: O His Eminence the Shaykh! Please tell us about the virtue of the greeting. For example, if there is a group of people in a gathering and a person enters and greets them, are they all required to return the greeting, or is it sufficient for some of them to do so?
Answer:
The Shaykh: It is better if they all return the greeting, but if some of them return it, that suffices for the rest, based on the hadith:Bulugh al-Maram 16:9 However, if they all return it, that is better. Yes.
The questioner: O His Eminence the Shaykh! Please tell us about the virtue of the greeting. For example, if there is a group of people in a gathering and a person enters and greets them, are they all required to return the greeting, or is it sufficient for some of them to do so?
Answer:
The Shaykh: It is better if they all return the greeting, but if some of them return it, that suffices for the rest, based on the hadith:
it is sufficient if one of them gives a salutation, and it is sufficient for those who are sitting that one of them replies
يجزئ عن الجماعة أن يسلم أحدهم، ويجزئ عن الجماعة أن يرد أحدهم
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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