Never has the time for salaah arrived, except that I had been longing for it.
Category: Congregational Prayer
Safeguarding the prayer in congregation
From the greatest righteous acts by which men can draw near to Allaah, is to safeguard the[ir] prayer in congregation.
The best of prayers
Silsilatul-Ahaadeeth as-Saheehah/1566 The [prayer which is considered to be the] best of prayers to Allaah is [the] morning (Fajr) prayer in congregation on the day of Jumu'ah. Translation originall..
He would weep
If Sa'eed ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez [ever] missed the congregational prayer, he would weep.
Except the day when my mother passed away
I remained for forty years, and never [once] missed the initial takbeer [upon beginning the congregational prayer], except the day when my mother passed away.
Never missed the initial takbeer
Regarding Bishr ibn Mansoor, it was said that he never missed the initial takbeer [upon beginning the congregational prayer].
Nor have I seen the back of a man
For fifty years, I never [once] missed the initial takbeer [upon beginning the congregational prayer], and nor have I seen the back of a man in the [congregational] prayer [since].
Nothing more desirable has remained
In this world, nothing more desirable has remained than prayer in congregation, and [subsequently] meeting the brothers.
Missing a prayer in congregation
Sa'eed ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez would weep if he missed a prayer in congregation [in the masjid].
Whoever is not concerned with the prayer
'Whoever is not concerned with [preparing for] the prayer before its time, then he has not dignified or venerated it.' And Wakee' [also] said