Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
your reply to this email confused me? Does this mean that there cannot be a second jamaat at the masjid? If a group of people are late, then one of them has to lead them anyways?
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Walaikum assalam,
1. A ‘latecomer’ (masbuq) is someone who catches the imam’s prayer, but missed one of more rakat. [Tumurtashi/Haskafi, Durr al-Mukhtar `ala Tanwir al-Absar]
2. Hanafis cannot pray by making a latecomer [defined above] their imam. [ibid.]
3. As for a second congregation at a mosque, see the attached answer for details.
And Allah alone gives success.
Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani