Particular Rulings on Listening to the Quran and Remaining Silent

Question

[ar]إِذَا قُرِئَ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ[/ar] “When the Quran is recited” — is this general or specific? If specific, please state the time; if general, then [the following cases arise]: (a) A person came to the mosque for the dawn (Fajr) prayer; the congregational prayer (jama‘a) was already in progress there; he began performing the sunna [prayer]. (b) Or a person came to the mosque at a time when the tarawih had already begun, and having come, he performs the fard separately. (c)

Answer

The apparent meaning of the verse: [ar]وَإِذَا قُرِئَ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥ وَأَنصِتُوا۟[/ar] “And when the Quran is recited, listen to it and be silent” — is general, but the scholars hold several views on this. The first: that this concerns [the time] when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ himself recited the Holy Quran, [i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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