Virtue and Rulings of Congregational Prayer

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1. 3059

   Go back to your families and stay with them. Teach them (religion) and command them (to adhere to it), perform so-and-so prayer at so-and-so time, and when prayer becomes due, let one of you call the Adhān and let the oldest among you lead you in prayer

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Bukhari & Muslim
2. 3325

   If your wife asks your permission to go to the mosque, do not prevent her

   Authentic hadithAl-Bukhari and Muslim with its two versions
3. 3435

   The reward of a man's prayer in congregation is twenty five times greater than that of the prayer he offers in his house or market

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Bukhari & Muslim
4. 3441

   Praying in congregation is twenty-seven degrees better than praying alone

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Bukhari & Muslim
5. 3713

   O Banu Salimah, stay in your neighborhood, your footsteps are recorded for you; stay in your neighborhood, your footsteps are recorded for you

   Authentic hadithAl-Bukhari with a similar wording - Narrated by Muslim
6. 4566

   A man's prayer in congregation is twenty-something degrees higher than his prayer in his house and market

   AuthenticAgreed upon
7. 4850

   Whoever ate garlic or onion should keep away from us—or he said: from our mosque—and stay at home

   AuthenticAgreed upon
8. 5436

   Whoever goes to the mosque in the morning or the evening, Allah has prepared an abode for him in Paradise every time he goes in the morning or the evening

   AuthenticAgreed upon
9. 8953

   O people, you eat two plants that I only find offensive: onion and garlic

   Authentic hadithNarrated by Muslim
10. 11286

    The congregational prayer surpasses the prayer of any one of you alone by twenty-five times. And the angels of the night and the angels of the day gather at the Fajr prayer

    AuthenticAgreed upon
11. 11287

    Do you hear the Adhān?" He replied in the affirmative. Thereupon, he said: "Then respond to it

    AuthenticNarrated by Muslim
12. 11288

    Whoever hears the prayer call and does not attend the congregational prayer, then his prayer is not valid (deficient), except if he has an excuse

    Authentic hadithNarrated by Ibn Majah
13. 11299

    The best of the men's rows is the first, and the worst is the last, and the best of the women's rows is the last, and the worst is the first

    AuthenticNarrated by Muslim
14. 11306

    These two prayers are the most burdensome of all prayers for the hypocrites. If you knew what they contain, you would come to them, even if you had to crawl on your knees

    AuthenticNarrated by Abu Dāwūd, An-Nasā’i, and Ahmad
15. 65738

    Complete the front row first, then the one following it. If there is any deficiency (in the rows), let it be in the last row

    AuthenticNarrated by Abu Dāwūd and Al-Nasā’i
16. 65739

    When the Iqāmah (second call ) for prayer is pronounced, no prayer is to be offered but the obligatory one

    AuthenticNarrated by Muslim