MISCELLANEOUS \ Enjoining the good and forbidding the evil \
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Encouraged others to attend the prayer
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Question
: A person saw some workers on his way to the masjid so he stopped by them and encouraged them to attend the salaah and gave them some advice. As a result of being delayed by the workers, he missed the Takbeeratul-Ihraam (the saying of Allaahu Akbar when beginning the salaah). So is he rewarded as one who caught the Takbeeratul-Ihraam or not?

Response: He is rewarded more than those who caught the Takbeeratul-Ihraam since being present for the Takbeeratul-Ihraam is a Sunnah. As for advising these (workers) and encouraging them with good, then that is obligatory. Therefore, he is rewarded more for this than having missed out on (the reward for attending) the Takbeeratul-Ihraam.

Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen
Fataawa Noorun alad-Darb, Volume 1, Page 197