Ash Shaykh Abdul Hameed Al Hajooree in his book (الذهب المسبوك في احكام الكسوف, Page: 52-53) mentions:
“Matter: Does praying the eclipse prayer alone count, or is the congregation a condition for it?
Abu Yousuf and Muhammad Ibn Al Hassan from the Hanafis went towards this statement [that the congregation is a condition].
Speech regarding having the congregation for the eclipse prayer has preceded and we came to a conclusion that the congregation for it is better and more complete.
The one who isn’t able to pray in congregation whether that be a man or woman, then it is obligatory upon them to pray even if it be alone, or a man praying with his family.
Our proof for that is the narrations which preceded in the chapter ‘The actions in the eclipse prayer’ [such as]
‘If you see that [the eclipse], then pray'”
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Ibn Qudaamah said in Al Mughni 2/142:
“It is legislated/Sunnah to pray it in congregation or alone, and with this Maalik and Ash Shafiee said”
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Translated by
Majid Jawed Al-Afghanee
Abu Layl
Shaykh Al Uthaymeen mentioned in Majmoo Al Fataawa 16/310:
“There is no problem for a woman to pray the eclipse prayer in her home because the command is general [it being]:
‘Then pray and supplicate until it is over’
But if she goes to the Masjid as the female companions did and she prays with the people [in congregation] then in this is good.”
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Translated by
Majid Jawed Al-Afghanee
Abu Layl
