He also said: ‘It was also affirmed that some of the Sah?bah missed the first congregation with the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) and then they performed it individually and the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) knew about it. They could have done it in a second congregation. They did not do so because they detested that another congregation be established in the mosque’. (1) The word Sah?bah in Ash-Sh?fi‘?’s statement refers to Abdull?h Ibn Mas‘?d and others.

Abdir Razz?q narrated -and so did At-Tabar?n? through the same chain of narrators- from Ma‘mar from Hamm?d from Ibr?h?m that ‘Alqamah and Al-Aswad once accompanied Ibn Mas‘?d to the mosque. Having reached the mosque, they found that people had already finished their Sal?t. Ibn Mas‘?d went back home with his two companions and led them in Sal?t placing one of them to his left side and the other to his right side. (2)

Ibn Ab? Shaibah and Abdir Razz?q narrated through their own chain of narrators traced back to Al-Hasan Al-Basr? to have said: ‘The prophet’s ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) Sah?bah used to perform their Sal?t individually in the mosque when they reached it and found that the people had already done it’. (3)

Were conducting a second congregation in the mosque absolutely permissible, Ibn Mas‘?d would not have resorted to performing it at home knowing that performing compulsory Sal?t in the mosque is much more superior and he could have made a second congregation.

Suhn?n narrated form Ibn Al-Q?sim from M?lik from Abdir Rahman Ibn Al-Mujabbir to have said: ‘I once accompanied S?lim Ibn Abdillah to Al-J?mi‘ and having reached there, we found that the people had already finished their Sal?t. People suggested to S?lim that he makes another congregation.