If one of you joins the congregational prayer and finds the Imām in one of the four positions of prayer: standing up, bowing, prostrating, or sitting down, he has to do the same as the Imām immediately without waiting for the Imām to stand up like what laymen do.

• It is legitimate for a person coming late to prayer to join the Imām at any part of the prayer, with no difference between Rukū‘, prostration, or sitting.
• Catching up a Rak‘ah with the Imām is realized by catching up its Rukū‘, as indicated by other Hadīths.

1. Página inicial
2. Jurisprudence and Juristic Principles
3. Jurisprudence of Acts of Worship
4. Prayer
5. Rulings of the Imam and Followers in Prayer
6. O Hadith

• Do not do so. If any of you prays in his house and finds that the Imām has not prayed, he should pray along with him; and that will be a supererogatory prayer for him
• Get up and I will lead you in prayer
• Is he who raises his head before the Imam not afraid that Allah may transform his head into that of a donkey or his shape into that of a donkey?
• May Allah increase your keenness, but do not do that again