Al-Tirmidhi转述了伊本·阿拔斯（愿真主喜悦他们二人）的话：有人问他关于一个白天封斋、夜间礼拜，却不参加集体礼拜的人，伊本·阿拔斯回答说：如果他坚持这样直至死去，他将进入火狱。
有一次，一位盲人来到先知ﷺ面前，说："真主的使者啊，我没有人带我去清真寺，我可以在家中礼拜吗？"先知ﷺ允许了他。但当他转身离去时，先知ﷺ又叫住他，问道："你听得见召唤礼拜的呼声吗？"那人答道："听得见。"先知ﷺ说："那么你就应当响应它。"
阿布·达乌德也以如下形式转述了同一段圣训：伊本·乌m·马克图姆来到先知ﷺ面前，说："真主的使者啊，麦地那有很多爬行动物和野兽，而我又是盲人，我可以在家中礼拜吗？"先知ﷺ问道："你听得见召礼的话语吗（Haiyaala salah，haiyaala salah）？"他说："听得见。"先知ﷺ说："那么你就必须响应。"
另有一则传述称："真主的使者啊，我是盲人，住得离清真寺很远，又没有能让我舒适的引路人，我可以得到许可吗？"先知ﷺ说："凡听到召礼之声，而又没有合法的借口却不去响应的人，他的拜功不会被接受。"众人问道："真主的使者啊，什么是借口？"先知ﷺ说："是恐惧或疾病。"
先知ﷺ还说："愿真主诅咒三种人：领导一群憎恨他的人的人；一个整夜都怀着怒气与丈夫相处的妇女；以及听到召礼却不予响应的人。"
阿布·胡莱赖说："耳朵里灌满熔化的铅，也好过听到召礼却不去响应。"
阿里·伊本·艾比·塔利布（愿真主喜悦他）说："清真寺近邻的人的拜功，除非在清真寺中礼拜，否则不被接受。"有人问："谁是清真寺的近邻？"他回答说："就是听到召礼之声的人。" 阿里还说:"谁听到了召唤礼拜的呼声却不响应,除非有借口,否则他的礼拜不会超过他的头顶。"伊本·麦斯欧德(愿真主喜悦他)说:"凡喜欢以穆斯林的身份见真主的人,应当在听到召唤时坚持守持五拜。因为真主为你们的先知规定了正道的传统(Sunna),而五拜正属于这些传统。如果你们像那些怠慢礼拜的人一样在家中礼拜,那你们就是放弃了先知ﷺ的Sunna。如果放弃了先知ﷺ的Sunna,你们就会迷失。我们中间除了公开的伪信者或病人,没有人会缺席会众礼拜。我记得曾有人被两个人搀扶着带来,站在清真寺里,以获得会众礼拜的报酬,并免除缺席所带来的罪过。"
会众礼拜的地位如此重大,正如真主至高所说:{在训诫之后,我曾在《赞美诗》中写道:"我的正义仆人将继承大地。"}(《先知》:105)
At-Tirmidhi related on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) who was asked about a man who spends the day fasting and the night praying but he does not pray in a congregation. Ibn `Abbas answered, if he dies adhering to that, he will enter the Hell fire. " Once, a blind man came to the Prophet (pbuh) and submitted, "0 Messenger of Allah, I have nobody to lead me to mosque, do I have a dispension to pray at home? Then the Prophet permitted him. But when he was going back the Prophet called him and asked, do you hear the call to prayer? The man replied, yes. "Therefore respond to it.” the Prophet said.” The same hadith is reported by Abu Dawud as follows: Ibn Umm Maktum came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said, "0 Messenger of Allah, there are large number of reptiles and beasts in Medina and I am blind, do I have a dispension to pray at home? Then the Prophet (pbuh) said, do you hear the words of the call to prayer (haiyaala salah, haiyaala salah). He said, yes." The Prophet said, then you have to respond to. Another narration states that, "0 Messenger of Allah, I am a blind man and live far away from the mosque and love an inconvenient guide, do I have dispension? "Whoever hears the call to prayer and no excuse withholds him to respond will not have his prayer accepted. They asked, 0 Messenger of Allah, what is an excuse? He said, fear or sickness. " "May Allah curse three people: he who leads a group of people who hate him, a woman who spends a night angry with her husband, and a man who hears the call to prayer and does not answer. " Abu Hurairah said, it is better for one's ears to be filled with molten lead than to hear the call to prayer and not answer it." Ali Ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "The prayers performed by a neighbor of a mosque are not accepted except in the mosque." Someone asked, who is a neighbor of a mosque? He replied, he who hears the call to prayer." Ali also said, whoever hears the call to prayer and does not respond his prayer will not go further than his head except if he has an excuse." Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him said, whoever likes to meet Allah as a Muslim should keep on performing the five prayers when the call to them is issued. This is because, Allah has given your Prophet the traditions of guidance (Sunna) and they (the five prayers) belong to such traditions. If you pray at home as does the one who remisses the prayer, then you neglect the Prophet's Sunna. If you neglect the Prophet's Sunna you will be astray. Verily, none of us would miss the congregational prayer but a wellknown hypocrite or a sick man. I remember that a man would be brought leaning on two men and put in the raw to attain its reward and escape the sins of missing it." Performing prayers in congregation is so great as mentioned in Qur'an Allah most high says, {Before this We wrote in the psalms, after the message given to Moses): "My servants the righteous, shall inherit the earth.} (AI-Anbiya': 105)