are doing their Sal?t. It should also be pure from those beggars who take mosques as places from which they earn their living. (1)

[27] Abandoning Tahiyyatul Masjid, the prior-Sunnah Sal?t, and doing them towards a Sutrah:

Upon entering the mosque, some people do the following mistakes:

[1/ 27] The first: standing in the mosque far a way from the wall which is in the direction of the Qibalah and performing Sal?t without placing a Sutrah or ever coming closer to the wall (2) although ‘the one doing Sal?t has more right in them or the pole for that matter than the one just sitting near them talking to others’, as was narrated from ‘Umar ( - رضي الله عنه -) to have said. (3)

[2/ 27] Abandoning Tahiyyatul Masjid:

Ab? Qat?dah related from the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) to have said: ‘when you enter the mosque, perform two Rak‘ahs before you sit’. (4) In another narration, ‘Ab? Qat?dah entered the mosque and found the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) sitting amongst his Sah?bah. Ab? Qat?dah joined them. Thereupon, the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) said: ‘Why didn’t your perform two Rak‘ahs?’ Ab? Qat?dah said: ‘I saw you sitting amongst people, so I joined you’. He ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) then said: ‘When any of you enter a mosque, he/she must not sit until he/she does two Rak‘ahs’. (5)

The aforementioned had?th indicates:

First: the legatlity of doing two Rak‘ahs when one enters a mosque.