Imam's Friends* [[-- Episode 2 --]]

 *Imam's Friends*

[[-- Episode 2 --]]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

*Praying Maghrib behind one who is praying ‘Isha’:*

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

The correct view on this is that if a person comes (to the mosque) and the imam is praying ‘Isha’, whether he is with a group or not, he should join the imam, with the intention of praying Maghrib. It does not matter if the imam’s intention is different from that of one who is praying behind him, because the Prophet (pbuh) said: “Actions are but by intentions, and each person will have but that which he intended.” If they join him in the second rak’ah, they can say the tasleem with him, because they will have prayed three rak’ahs, and it does not matter if they sit for the Tashahhud during their first rak’ah. If they join him in the first rak’ah, then when he stands up for the fourth rak’ah, they can sit and recite the Tashahhud and say the tasleem, then join him in what remains of ‘Isha prayer.

Someone may say that there is something wrong, which is saying the tasleem before the imam. In fact there is nothing wrong with this. It is narrated in some places in the Sunnah that a member of the congregation may do something separately from the imam, such as in the fear prayer, where the imam leads them in one rak’ah, then they complete the prayer by themselves and leave.

Another example is the story of the man who joined Mu’aadh ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) in prayer, but when he started to recite Soorat al-Baqarah or another similar soorah, he left him and did not complete the prayer with him. 

And the scholars said that if a man is praying in congregation, then, he feels that is about to pass wind or that he needs to break his wudoo’ by urinating or defecating, then there is no sin on him if he decides to pray alone and completes his prayer and leaves. This indicates that praying alone in the case of need is not regarded as wrong. End quote.

📚Liqaa’aat al-Baab il-Maftooh, 3/425

*One who comes into the mosque joining one who has stood up to complete the rak’ahs he missed with the first imam:*

It permissible to pray with a person who came late and joined the imam after one or two rak’ahs, so when he stands up to complete his prayer after the imam has finished, another person who was late and missed the prayer comes and prays with him so that he (the first latecomer) will be an imam and the (second) imam does not have to have the intention of leading the other in prayer.