A man could not pray Maghrib within its time. Later he prayed Isha in congregation at a mosque. He remembered while praying Isha that he still owed the missed Maghrib, but because the Isha congregation had already begun, he joined it anyway. He has no other missed prayers from the past. What should he do now? Should he make up the Maghrib prayer?
In this situation, his joining the Isha congregation and praying it while remembering the missed Maghrib was not valid. What he must do is make up the Maghrib prayer and then pray that Isha again.
The reason is that a person who has no backlog of missed prayers and then misses one must make up that prayer before praying the next one. He must make it up first even if he fears missing the congregation while doing so. But if time is so short that making it up would risk losing the obligatory prayer of the next time as well, he should pray the current prayer first.
A hadith reports that Abdullah ibn Umar said the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: whoever forgets to pray a prayer within its time and then remembers it while praying the next prayer behind the imam should finish that prayer with the imam. He should then pray the prayer he forgot (the missed one), and then pray again the prayer he prayed with the imam (the current obligatory prayer). (Tahawi, hadith 2684)
After narrating this hadith, Imam Tahawi said that the prayer the man prayed with the imam counts for him as a voluntary (nafl) prayer.
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