Hadith 26

(The book) ‘Majalis’ of Ibn Al Sheykh – from Al-Husayn Bin Ubeydullah Al Gazairy, from Al Tal’akbury, from Muhammad Bin Hammam, from Abdullah Allah-azwj Bin Ja’far Al Himeyri, from Muhammad Bin Khalid Al Tayalisy, from Zureyq Al Khulqany who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘It was raised to Amir Al-Momineen-asws at Al-Kufa that a group from neighbourhood of the Masjid were not attending the congregational Salat in the Masjid. He-asws said: ‘Let them either attend our congregation Salat(s) with us or let then transfer away from us, and they will neither be our neighbours nor will we be their neighbours’’. [36]
And from him by this chain, from Zureyq who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘Salat of the Man in his house in congregation equates to twenty-four Salat(s), and Salat of the man in congregation in the Masjid equates to eighty-four Salat(s), being double in the Masjid. And the (one) Cycle (of Salat) in the Sacred Masjid (equates to) a thousand Cycles in the Masjids other than it, and the Salat in the Masjid prayed individually (equates to) twenty-four Salat(s). And the Salat prayed in your house individually is (like) floating dust, nothing will ascend to Allah-azwj the Exalted, and the one who prays Salat in his house in congregation turning away from the Masjid, there is no Salat for him nor for the one praying with him, except from a (valid) reason preventing from the Masjid’’. [37]
And by this chain, from Zureyq, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, from Amir Al-Momineen-asws, it reached him-asws that a group were not attending the (congregational) Salat in the Masjid, so he-asws addressed and said: ‘There are people who are not attending the Salat with us in our Masjid(s), so they should neither eat with us, nor drink with us, nor consult us, nor marry us, nor be taking anything from our war booty, or they should attend our Salat(s) with us in congregation, and I-asws about to order with fire with them to be inflamed in their houses so these would be burned down upon them, or (unless) they desist! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘The Muslims refused from their foods, and their drinks, and marrying them until they attended the congregation (Salat) with the Muslims’’. [38]