Prayer in congregation: twenty-seven ranks

صلاة الجماعة: سبع وعشرون درجة

Prayer in congregation is better than the prayer of a man alone by twenty-seven ranks in Ibn Umar's narration Muslim 650 — Congregational prayer exceeds by twenty-seven degrees Muwatta 341, and by twenty-five in Abu Sa'id's narration in al-Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari 646 — ranks raised. This row shows both narrations and does not choose between them; the calculator counts with twenty-seven and names twenty-five in the result.

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The Prophetic Era
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Global / Diaspora

Worship and the pillarsEthics and character

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The reckoning of good and bad deeds

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The good deeds (al-hasanat)· The balance (al-mizan)· Sayyi'at (evil deeds and sins)· The reckoning of good and bad deeds· Expiation (kaffara)· The Reckoning· Calling to guidance or to error: the like of the rewards and sins of those who follow· Hajj without lewdness or wrongdoing, and umra to umra

Sources

  • Sahih Muslim
  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
  • Sahih al-Bukhari
  • hadith-api (fawazahmed0): open hadith editions
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The good deeds (al-hasanat)