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Sahih Muslim Book 5 - Hadith 339-345 Chapter 49: The virtue of offering the obligatory prayers in congregation, the virtue of waiting for prayer and taking many steps towards the masjid, the virtue of walking to the masjid. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: 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...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 332-338 Chapter 48: It is permissible to offer voluntary prayers in congregation, and to pray on hasir (palm-fiber mats), khumrah (small mats), cloth, and other pure things . Anas b. Malik reported that his grandmother, Mulaika, invited the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to a dinner which she had prepared. He (the Holy Prophet) ate out of that and then said: Stand up so that I should observe prayer (in order to bless) you Anas b. Malik said: I stood up on a mat (belonging to us) which had turned dark on account of its long use. I sprinkled water over it (in order to soften it), and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood upon it, and I and an orphan formed a row behind him (the Holy Prophet) and the old woman was behind us, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led us in two rak'ahs of prayer and then went back. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 332 ) Anas b. Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wits the best among people in character. On occasions, th...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 329-331 Chapter 47: Concession allowing one to not attend the congregation if there is an excuse. Mahmud b. al-Rabi' reported that 'Ibn b. Malik, who was one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and who participated in the (Battle of) Badr and was among the Ansar (of Medina), told that he came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah, I have lost my eyesight and I lead my people in prayer. When there is a downpour there is then a current (of water) in the valley that stands between me and them and I find it impossible to go to their mosque and lead them in prayer. Messenger of Allah, I earnestly beg of you that you should come and observe prayer at a place of worship (in my house) so that I should then use it as a place of worship. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Well, if Allah so wills. I would soon do so. 'Itban said: On the following day when the day dawned, the Messenger of Allah (Peace Be Upon Him) ...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 322-328 Chapter 45: The prohibition of leaving the masjid once the Mu’adhdhin has called the Adhan. Abu Sha'tha' reported: While we were sitting with Abu Huraira in a mosque a man went out of the mosque after the call to prayer had been announced. (A man stood up in the mosque and set off.) Abu Huraira's eyes followed him till he went out of the mosque. Upon this Abu Huraira said: This man has disobeyed Abu'l- Qasim (Muhammad) (ﷺ). ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 322 ) Abu Sha'tha' al-Muharibi reported on the authority of his father, who said: I heard it from Abu Huraira that he saw a person getting out of the mosque after the call to prayer had been announced. Upon this he remarked: This (man) disobeyed Abu'l-Qasim (ﷺ). ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 323 ) Chapter 46: The virtue of praying `Isha and Subh in congregation. 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abd 'Amr reported: 'Uthman b. 'Affan (narrat...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 319-321 Chapter 43: It is obligatory for the one who hears the call to prayer to come to the masjid . Abu Huraira reported: There came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) a blind man and said: Messenger of Allah, I have no one to guide me to the mosque. He, therefore, asked. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) permission to say prayer in his house. He (The Holy Prophet) granted him permission. Then when the man turned away he called him and said: Do you hear the call to prayer? He said: Yes. He (the Prophet then) said: Respond to it. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 319 ) Chapter 44: Prayer in congregation is one of the sunnah of guidance . 'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported: I have seen the time when no one stayed away from prayer except a hypocrite, whose hypocrisy was well known, or a sick man, but if a sick man could walk between two persons (i.e. with the help of two persons with one on each side) he would come to prayer. And (further) said: ...

Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 305-318 Chapter 42: The virtue of prayer in congregation, and clarifying the stern warning against staying away from it, and that it is fard kifayah. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Prayer said in a congregation is twenty-five degrees more excellent than prayer said by a single person. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 305 ) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying: Prayer said in a congregation is twenty-five degrees more excellent than prayer said by a single person. He (Abu Huraira further) said: The angels of the night and the angels of the day meet together. Abu Huraira said: Recite it you like:" Surely the recital of the Qur'an at dawn is witnessed" (al-Qur'an, xvii. 78). ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 306 ) A hadith like this has been narrated by Abu Huraira with another chain of transmitters with a very slight change of words. ( Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 307 ) Abu ...