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: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) taught us the paths of right
guidance, among which is prayer in the mosque in which the Adhan is called. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 320)
Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported:
He who likes to meet Allah
tomorrow as Muslim, he should persevere in observing these prayers, when a call
is announced for them, for Allah has laid down for your Prophet the paths of
right guidance, and these (prayers) are among the paths of right guidance. If
you were to pray in your houses as this man who stays away (from the mosque)
prays in his house, you would abandon the practice of your Prophet, and if you
were to abandon the practice of your Prophet, you would go astray. No man
purifies himself, doing it well, then makes for one of those mosques without
Allah recording a blessing for him for every step he takes raising him a degree
for it, and effacing a sin from him for it. I have seen the time when no one
stayed away from it, except a hypocrite, who was well known for his hypocrisy,
whereas a man would be brought swaying (due to weakness) between two men till
he was set up in a row. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 321)
Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 319-321
Sahih Muslim
Book 5 – Hadith 305-318 - SOLTLANE