{"id":8345,"date":"2025-12-02T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:37:25","slug":"joining-imam-last-tashahhud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"Joining the Imam in the Last Tashahhud: What to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Joining the Imam in the Last Tashahhud<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What shall I do if I catch the <em>Imam<\/em> (leader of prayer) while in the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/conclusion-of-prayer\/\"><em>tashahhud<\/em><\/a> of prayer? Do I miss such prayer and have to join a new congregation?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said, I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) saying, &#8220;When the <em>Iqamah<\/em> is pronounced, do not come to it running, you should walk calmly with tranquility to join the congregation. Then join in what you catch for and complete what you miss.&#8221; (Al-Bukhari)<\/p>\n<p>Imam Ibn Hajar said, \u201cThe previous proves that it is preferred (<em>mustahab<\/em>) to join the imam of prayer in whatever position he is found.\u201d (Fath Al-Bari)<\/p>\n<p>The scholars of the Standing Committee were asked: What is better if a man enters the mosque and the imam is reciting the final <em>tashahhud<\/em> \u2013 should he join him in the <em>tashahhud<\/em> or is it better to wait for some other people to come so that they can pray together?<\/p>\n<p>They replied:<\/p>\n<p>It is better for him to join the imam, because of the general meaning of the hadith: \u201cWhatever you catch up with, pray, and whatever you miss, make it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy watching this interesting fatwa with Dr. Muhammad Salah to know the ruling of catching the prayer while the imam in the last <em>tashahhud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><br \/>\n<\/video><\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Iqra Youtube Channel <\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/joining-imam-last-tashahhud\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of catching the prayer while the imam in the last tashahhud? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[6322,6323,6324,4020,1920,9,1568,1569,6325,6326,6175,374,1575,1852],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-catching-the-imam","tag-congregation-of-prayer","tag-entering-the-mosque-while-imam-in-last-tashahhud","tag-etiquettes-of-prayer","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-featured","tag-how-muslims-pray","tag-how-to-pray","tag-joining-the-congregational-prayer","tag-joining-the-imam-in-the-last-tashahhud","tag-last-tashahhud","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-rulings-of-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Joining-the-Imam-in-the-Last-Tashahhud.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}