Repeating Current Prayers in Congregation

 

Question: If one has prayed a fardh salaah alone, but then one has the opportunity to pray the same salaah again in a jamaah, should one?  What is preferable?  If one does, is that salaah counted as a fardh?

It is mentioned in Nuru’l-Idah as follows:

 And it is makruh (tahriman) to come out of the mosque in which the adhan has been called until one prays the salat, excepta person who is going out of the mosque to lead another congregation. (F: This is conditioned in Radd al-Muhtarby a person in whose absence the other congregation would not be normally established. Otherwise, even this is not an excuse.)

And if one comes out of the masjid after having performed the ( current time's obligatory) salat individually, it will not be makruh (offensive) exceptif the congregation has started before one comes out in the Dhur and Isha, so one should  join in the setwo salats (Dhur and Isha) as a  supererogatory prayer ( nafl, with th isintention of a nafl prayer).   [Imam al-Shurunbulali, Nuru’l-Idah pg .108 ]

-  If one has already prayed a fard and has an opportunity to pray it again, one should do so with the intention of Nafl.

- One can pray Dhur and Isha again,  but not Fajr,Asr and Maghrib.

- As for Fajr, one  would be praying  a supererogatory prayer in a  disliked time, as nafl  prayers are not allowed after the  fard of Fajr.

- As for Asr, one will be praying  a supererogatory prayer (nafl )after Asr, which is makruh to do.

- And Maghrib, because  supererogatory prayer of three  rakats are not allowed,  because the Prophet (Allah bless him & give him peace) forbade such prayers. As a result, in the Hanafi School praying an odd number of  rak’ats  is not permissible, except for the Maghrib and Witr.

[Faraz: As an interesting aside, Imam al-Shurunbulali's works are full of baraka because he was a man of baraka, and like his kunya (Abu'l Ikhlas) a man of sincerity. This is because he was a sufi, of the Wafa'i branch of the noble Shadhili tariqa.]

And Allah knows best.