The virtue of performing the five daily prayers in congregation
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1 To be admitted into the Paradise
It was narrated that ‘Ubadah bin Samit ( May Allah be pleased with him ) said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) saying: ‘Five prayers that Allah has enjoined upon His slaves, so whoever does them and does not omit anything out of negligence, on the Day of Resurrection Allah will make a covenant with him that He will admit him to Paradise. But whoever does them but omits something from them out of negligence, will not have such a covenant with Allah; if He wills He will punish him, and if He wills, He will forgive him.’”
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2 To have an immunity against the Hellfire and an immunity against hypocrisy if I applied this Hadith;
Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:
the Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as saying, “If anyone prays to God for forty days in the congregation being present in time for the first takbira, two immunities will be recorded for him, one from hell and one from hypocrisy,”
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3 To have the sins forgiven because of offering the prayer in a congregation after performing the ablution properly
on the authority of 'Uthman bin 'Affan ( May Allah be pleased with him ) that he heard Allah's Messenger ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say:
"He who performed ablution for prayer and performed it properly and then went (to observe) obligatory prayer and offered it along with people or with the congregation or in the mosque, Allah would pardon his sins"
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4 To do what pleases Allah
Allah is pleased with offering the prayer in a congregation. Abdullah bin Umar ( May Allah be pleased with him ) reported:
The Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said: " Allah is pleased with offering the prayer in a congregation "
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5 To meet Allah as a Muslim because of maintaining the prayer in a congregation
Ibn Mas'ud ( May Allah be pleased with him ) reported:
He who likes to meet Allah tomorrow (i.e., on the Day of Requital) as a Muslim, should take care and observe the Salat when the Adhan is announced for them. Allah has expounded to your Prophet ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) the ways of right guidance, and these ( the prayers ) are part of the right guidance. If you have to perform Salat in your houses, as this man who stays away ( from the mosque ) and performs prayer in his house, you will abandon the Sunnah ( practice ) of your Prophet ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) and the departure from the Sunnah of your Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, will lead you astray. I have seen the time when no one stayed behind except a well-known hypocrite. I also saw that a man was brought swaying ( on account of weakness ) between two men till he was set up in a row ( in the mosque ).
[ Muslim ].
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6 To obtain a reward multiplied 25 or 27 times
Abu Hurairah ( May Allah be pleased with him ) reported:
The Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said: "A man's prayer in congregation is twenty-five times more rewarding than his Salat at home or in his shop, Abdullah ibn Umar ( May Allah be pleased with him ) narrated that the Messenger of Allah ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said, "Prayer in congregation is better than the prayer of a man by himself by twenty-seven degrees."
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