Is it permissible for a traveler, if he prays behind an Imam who is completing the prayer, to shorten his prayer by praying two rak'ahs with him, then saluting and leaving?
If a traveler prays behind a resident imam, he must complete the prayer with four rak'ahs, whether he caught the entire prayer, one rak'ah, or less; because the imam is there to be followed. Also, Ibn Abbas said to someone who asked him about the prayer of a traveler behind a resident: "That is the ," and due to the action of Ibn Umar. So, if a traveler joins the prayer while the imam is in the last two rak'ahs, he must, after the imam's , stand up and complete what he missed to pray four rak'ahs, based on the general statement of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "What you catch, pray, and what you miss, complete." And whoever previously prayed two rak'ahs behind a resident imam in such a case must repeat those four-rak'ah prayers.
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