حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَکِيعٌ عَنْ الْمَسْعُودِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْأَقْمَرِ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ حَافِظُوا عَلَی هَؤُلَائِ الصَّلَوَاتِ الْخَمْسِ حَيْثُ يُنَادَی بِهِنَّ فَإِنَّهُنَّ مِنْ سُنَنِ الْهُدَی وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ شَرَعَ لِنَبِيِّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سُنَنَ الْهُدَی وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا وَمَا يَتَخَلَّفُ عَنْهَا إِلَّا مُنَافِقٌ بَيِّنُ النِّفَاقِ وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُهَادَی بَيْنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ حَتَّی يُقَامَ فِي الصَّفِّ وَمَا مِنْکُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا وَلَهُ مَسْجِدٌ فِي بَيْتِهِ وَلَوْ صَلَّيْتُمْ فِي بُيُوتِکُمْ وَتَرَکْتُمْ مَسَاجِدَکُمْ تَرَکْتُمْ سُنَّةَ نَبِيِّکُمْ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَلَوْ تَرَکْتُمْ سُنَّةَ نَبِيِّکُمْ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَکَفَرْتُمْ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 550
Abdullah bin Masud said: Persevere in observing these five times of prayer where the announcement for them is made, because they are from the paths of right guidance. And Allah, the Might, the Majestic, has laid down for his prophet ﷺ the paths of right guidance. I have seen the time when no one stayed away from prayer except a hypocrite whose hypocrite was well known. I witnessed the time when a man would be brought swaying between two men till he was set up in the row (of the prayer). Every one of us has a mosque of his in his house. If you were to pray in your houses and stay from your mosques. You would abandon the Sunnah (practice) of your prophet, and if you were Abandon the Sunnah (Practice) of your Prophet, you would become an unbeliever.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020