Second: the falsehood of the view that states that one should not do them if one sits before doing them.

This is clearly stated in Ab? Thar’s narration. He ( - رضي الله عنه -) once entered the mosque [then Sat down]. The prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) asked him: ‘Did you perform the two Rak‘ahs Sal?t?’ Ab? Thar answered in the negative. There upon, the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) said: ‘Stand up and perform them’. (1)

Ibn Hibban narrated the aforementioned had?th in a section titled with “Tahiyyatul Masjid is not missed by sitting before doing it”.

Sulaik’s narration affirms the same point even when the Im?m is delivering the Friday Khutbah.

In case the Iq?mah is recited and one is doing Tahiyyatul Masjid, one should stop doing his Sal?t and join the Im?m as is going to be discussed later.

[3/ 27] In case there is no enough time to do Tahiyyatul Masjid followed by the Sunnah or obligatory Sal?t one is permitted to do the same Sal?t with both intentions. An-Nawaw? stated that ‘the Sh?fi‘? scholars agreed unanimously that one could do the obligatory Sal?t and Tahiyyatul Masjid at the same time. (2) Having done along intensive research about this, no contradictory opinion was found.

[28] Reciting Al-Ikhl?s Surah before the Iq?mah:

Shaikh Al-Q?sim? said:

[1/ 28] ‘Reciting Al-Ikhl?s Surah thrice before the Iqamah is recited -as a sign of announcing the beginning of Sal?t- is an act of Bid‘ah which is totally proofless and not needed’. (3)