(1) In other words, observing the tarāwīḥ prayer in congregation and early in the night is, in his judgment, superior to performing it individually after delaying it until the last portion of the night. While postponing it has its own particular merit, the congregational form remains preferable because the Prophet ﷺ himself led it on those nights when he enlivened the mosque with the people, as mentioned in the hadith of ʿĀʾishah and others. For that reason Muslims have maintained this practice from the era of ʿUmar until the present. ⦗18⦘