A Claim That Congregation With Family At Home
Suffices You
From Congregation In The Masjid
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Shayk..
Regards to jama'ah prayer is it that most veiw of ulema is that to make congregration at home needs more than 1 person , that mean wife & children are congregrates, then no need for praying in masjid if have congregration at home ?
وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته
Answer:
This understanding is wrong. Rather, it is too far away from the command of the Prophet, sallalalahualaihiwassalam, and his guidance, and contrary to the understanding of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them, and those who followed them in goodness.
📍 His order peace be upon him is clear as in the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah in the saheehain, he said: A blind man came to the Prophet peace be upon him and said:
O Messenger of Allah, I don't have any one to lead me to the mosque, I ask the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him to allow me to pray in my house, so he said: “Do you hear the call to prayer?” I said: Yes. He said: "Then answer."
So If it was prescribed for this blind man to pray with his family only for the sake of congregation and leaving the mosque, the Prophet sallalalahualaihiwassalam, would have guided him to it, especially when the need calls for that, but he commanded him to come to the mosque!
📍 As for the opposition to his the guidance and the way of the Prophet sallalalahualaihiwassalam is also clear, as it was proven in the two sahihs from the hadith of Al-Aswad, he said: I asked Aisha what the Prophet may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to do in his house ? She said: He used to be busy of take caring of his family - meaning serving his family - so when the time for prayer come he would go out to pray.
So see how the Prophet sallalalahualaihiwassalam, leaves his family to go out of his house to pray in the mosque. So If your understanding is correct, why did the Prophet sallalalahualaihiwassalam not preforming the congregational prayer in his house with his family! And he sufficed with that from going out to the mosque even once! Rather he did not even tell us about the sufficiency that you claim even once in his talk !
📍 Also this understanding is wrong according to the understanding of the companions and there followers ..
O brother look to this speech in Saheeh Muslim from Ibn Masood may Allah be pleased with him, he said: If you likes to meet your lord as a muslim, fulfill these prayers where they calls to them, Allah has give it to the Prophet sallalalahualaihiwassalam as a ways of guidance. So if you are praying in your house as how this backward "pointing to a man" praying in his house you will leave the way of your Prophet sallalalahualaihiwassalam, and if you leaved the way you Prophet you will be deceived "
📌 Therefore, you often find the owners of these kind of speech do not care much about achieving the truth and the achievement of servitude to Allah Almighty, but rather the intent is to evade with any excuse whatsoever,
والله أعلم