prayer behind other sects
Dear Brother / Sister,
According to Sunni School scholars two different decrees are claimed about a person who obeys a school imam who is not that person’s main school imam indeed.
According to Hanefi and Shafi’i scholars belief of the congregation is the main base in the prayer. That is to say, the prayer of imam must be sound according to the belief of a person who participate the praying congregation. With respect to the owners of this comment; prayer of a Shafi’i follower is not sound when he performs his prayer under the imamate of a man who touched his hand to a woman or prayer of a Hanefi School follower is not sound when he performs his prayer with a Shafi’i imam whose body has bled. (el-Fıkhu’l-İslamî, II/180-181, 207; Ibn Abidîn,I/563).
As for the decree of Malikhi and Khanbeli School scholars the belief of the imam is the main base. Referring to this consideration, does there exist nothing which harms the prayer in reference to the school of imam, this prayer is sound even if an error exists according to the schools of congregation. Considering this comment the prayer of a Shafi’i follower is sound under the imamate of a man who touched his hand to a woman or prayer of a Hanefi School follower is sound when he performs his prayer with a Shafi’i imam whose body has bled. (el-Fıkhu’l-İslamî, II/180-181).
Thus, according to the decree which Ibn Âbidin, one of the Hanefi School scholars, preferred as long as fulfilling the obligations of prayer there is no inconvenience in the dependence of a Hanefi follower to a Shafi’i follower in the prayer or vice versa. As a matter of fact, although many people among the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) or the descendant following the companions were interpreters of Islamic law and had different opinions, they used to perform their prayers in the dependence of same imam. (Ibn Abidîn, I/564).
The indicated considerations above are valid for Shi’a School too. In other words, they can perform their prayers in the dependence of a Sunni imam.
Questions on Islam
- What are the issues that a person who will be an imam for people from different madhhabs should pay attention to? How is the issue of wudu?
- Is it permissible to abandon the view of a madhhab that contradicts a sound hadith and follow that hadith?
- Why is the wudu of a husband or wife invalidated in Shafiis when they touch each other though they are husband and wife?
- Does the congregation also say the prayer “samiallahu liman hamidah”?
- Is it necessary to perform a prayer again if awrah places are opened and if wudu is broken in prayer?
- Why can we not eat an amphibious animal?
- Amin
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