Anas reported: the Iqamah was pronounced (for the night prayer) and the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم remained engaged in talking (to a person) in the corner of the mosque. He did not begin prayer until the people slept.
Read More..Abu al-Nadr said: when the Iqamah was pronounced and the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم saw that they (the people) were small in number, he would sit down, nd would not pray; but when he saw them (the people) large in number, he would pray
Read More..This tradition has been transmitted through a different chain of narrators in a similar way by Ali bin Abi Talib.
Read More..Narrated Abud Darda: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: If there are three men in a village or in the desert among whom prayer is not offered (in congregation), the devil has got the mastery over them. So observe (prayer) in congregation), for the wolf eats only the straggling animal. Saib said: By the word Jama'ah he meant saying prayer in company or in congregation.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying; I thought to give orders for arranging prayer in congregation, and then to have the Iqamah called for it, then to order a man to lead the people in prayer, then to go off in company of the people who have bundles of firewood to those people who are not present at the prayer and then to burn down their houses with fire.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: I thought about giving orders to some youths for gathering a bundle of firewood, then going off to some people who their prayers in their homes without any excuse, and burning down their houses over them. I (Yazid bin Yazid) said: I asked Yazid bin al-Asamm: Abu Awf did he mean Friday (prayer) or any other? He replied: may my ears become deaf if I have not heard Abu Hurairah narrating it from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم; He did not mention Friday (prayer) or any other.
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