the congregation with the Im?m and instead do it alone after its due time is about to finish!! Were this the case how could one know their hypocrisy if all the other congregations are permissible to be established!!

[4/ 46] The second: If one misses the Sal?t with the congregation unintentionally, he may do it with a man who had already done his Sal?t with the congregation. This is clearly stated in Ab? Sa‘?d’s had?th.

[5/ 46] The third: An Im?m may not perform any Sal?t twice even if the second one is done for one which is missed.

All Im?ms agreed that such a practice is a detested Bid‘ah as mentioned by Shaikh Taqiyyud Din. (1)

[6/ 46] The fourth: Conducting more than one congregational Sal?t is permissible in highway Mosques for which there is no appointed Im?m nor Mu’aththin.

[7/ 46] The fifth: It is unanimously agreed upon that it is Har?m [forbidden] that many congregations be done at the same time in the same mosque. (2)

[8/ 46] The sixth: The abhorrence of conducting a second congregation in the mosque which has its appointed Im?m and Mu’aththin does not entail that those who did Sal?t with the original congregation would not get their full reward. (3)

[47] The threat against those who abandon the congregational Sal?t:

[1/ 47] Ab? Hurairah ( - رضي الله عنه -) narrated that the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) said: ‘I was about or planned to order my men to collect fire-wood [fuel] then order some one to lead people in Sal?t, then I would go and burn the houses of those who do not present themselves in the Sal?t’.