Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that the prayer in congregation is twenty-five times greater than the prayer offered alone. If there are more people, then the reward is equal to the number of people present in the mosque. A man asked, "If there are ten thousand people, then how much reward is there?" He replied, "If there are forty thousand, then the reward will be for forty thousand."

Hazrat Ka'b states that when one offers prayer in congregation, one receives a reward equal to the number of people present in the mosque.

Hazrat Kathir bin Aflah narrates that we were present in Madinah at the house of Hazrat Abu Yusuf regarding a matter of calculation. Zaid bin Thabit was also with us. He said that offering prayer with the Imam is more than twenty times superior to offering prayer alone.

Hazrat Abdullah says that prayer in congregation is twenty-four degrees or twenty-five times greater than prayer offered alone.