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Can You Pray Obligatory Prayer behind Sunnah Prayer?
There is nothing wrong with one who is offering an obligatory prayer to pray behind one who is offering an optional prayer. Also, there is nothing wrong with a person starting his prayer alone and then becoming an Imam when someone else joins him.76,006Does Receiving Payment to Lead Tarawih Decrease Rewards
3,437Is It Permissible to Precede the Imam in the Prayer?
Anticipating or preceding the Imam in prayer is forbidden, and if it is done deliberately, it invalidates the prayer. Delaying following him, like preceding him, is not allowed.11,154Can You Pray behind Someone Who Makes Mistakes in Al-Fatihah?
If the Imam’s mistakes do not alter the meaning of Al-Fatihah, there is nothing wrong with praying behind him. But if his mistake changes the meaning, then people should not pray behind him if he does not benefit from prompting.49,243Who Should Lead the Prayer?
The one who most deserves to lead the prayer is the one who has the most knowledge of the rulings on prayer and has memorized the most Quran.124,245He was not sure whether he had said the opening takbir, so he repeated it; was the prayer of those who were praying behind him rendered invalid?
4,554The imam made a mistake in the intention for the prayer, so he interrupted the prayer and said the opening takbir again, but the people praying behind him were not aware of that
4,263Is it permissible for the imam to tell those who are praying behind him to switch off their mobile phones when straightening the rows for the prayer?
3,835The imam got up for a third [rak‘ah] in Taraweeh, then added another [rak‘ah] to it, but there was someone behind him who was praying ‘Isha’
12,928Ruling on a woman who leads her relatives in praying Taraweeh when she is menstruating, and ruling on the prayer of those who prayed behind her
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