No,it is not true. It is a pillar.

Some say that reciting fatiha in third and fourth rakah is not fard but mustahabb is this true?

Prayer | March 23, 2014 7:03 pm
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I want to go to the mosque but i am indisposed with agoraphobia. I have al the intention to join the jummah for the prayers but I feel petrified of the crowd and end up bot being able to go to the mosque to pray.
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Yestarday while i was offering my congregational fajr prayer the imam was reciting surah dahr and he skipped an ayah and continued for two more ayahs and went in ruku..when i offered the luqma he didn’t correct it…