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 Huraira reported
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Prayer said in a
congregation is equivalent to twenty-five (prayers) as compared with the prayer
said by a single person. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 308)
Abu Huraira reported:
The Messenger of Allah (May
peace be upon him) said: Prayer along with the Imam is twenty-five times more
excellent than prayer said by a single person. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 309)
Ibn Umar reported Allah's
Messenger (ﷺ) assaying:
Prayer said in a
congregation is twenty-seven degrees more excellent than prayer said by a
single person. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 310)
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's
Apostle (ﷺ) as saying:
The prayer of a person in
congregation is twenty-seven times in excess to the prayer said alone. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 311)
Ibn Numair
reported it on the authority of his father (a preference of) more than twenty
(degrees) and Abu Bakr in his narration (has narrated it) twenty- seven
degrees. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 312)
Ibn 'Umar
reported from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as some and twenty (degrees). (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 313)
Abu Huraira reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
found some people absenting from certain prayers and he said: I intend that I
order (a) person to lead people in prayer, and then go to the persons who do
not join the (congregational prayer) and then order their houses to be burnt by
the bundles of fuel. If one amongst them were to know that he would find a fat
fleshy bone he would attend the night prayer. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 314)
Abu Huraira reported
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The most burdensome prayers
for the hypocrites are the night prayer and the morning prayer. If they were to
know the blessings they have in store, they would have come to them, even
though crawling, and I thought that I should order the prayer to be commenced
and command a person to lead people in prayer, and I should then go along with
some persons having a fagot of fuel with them to the people who have not
attended the prayer (in congregation) and would burn their houses with fire. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 315)
Hammam b. Munabbih
reported:
This is what Abu Huraira
reported to us from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and (in this connection) he
narrated some ahadith, one of them is: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I
intend that I should command my young men to gather bundles fuel for me, and
then order a person to lead people in prayer, and then burn the houses with
their inmates (who have not joined the congregation). (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 316)
A hadith like
this has been narrated by Abu Huraira. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 317)
'Abdullah reported Allah's
Messenger (ﷺ) as saying about people who are absent from Jumu'a prayer:
I intend that I should
command a person to lead people in prayer, and then burn those persons who
absent themselves from Jumu'a prayer in their houses. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 318)
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