Sunan Abu Dawood 576

Narrated Yazid ibn Amir: I came while the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم was saying the prayer. I sat down and did not pray along with them. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم turned towards us and saw that Yazid was sitting there. He..

A man from Banu Asad bin Khuzaimah asked Abu Ayyub al-Ansari: if one of us prays in his house, then comes to the mosque and finds that the iqamah is being called, and if I pray along with them ( in congregation), I feel something inside about it...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: Sulayman, the freed slave of Maymunah, said: I came to Ibn Umar at Bilat (a place in Madina) while the people were praying. I said: Do you not pray along with them? He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ..

Narrated Uqbah ibn Amir: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: He who leads the people in prayer, and he does so at the right time, will receive, as well as those who are led (in prayer) will get (the reward). He who delays..

Narrated Sulamah daughter of al-Hurr: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: One of the signs of the Last Hour will be that people in a mosque will refuse to act as imam and will not find an imam to lead them in prayer. ..

Abu Masud al-Badri reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: The one of you who is most versed in the Books of Allah should act as imam for the people; and the one who is the earliest of them in reciting (the Quran); if they..