Prayer in a house whose rows are connected to the Haram
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The questioner:
I went to Makkah in the last ten days of Ramadan and stayed in Dar al-Tawhid, which is the closest place to the Haram, so close that one can see the Ka'bah. Some of the women prayed with the congregation in the Haram inside this house for the entire ten days. As for me, I prayed on the night of the twenty-seventh, the twenty-ninth, and up to the twentieth. The people, or the worshippers, were crowded into this house. Is such prayer permissible?
The Shaykh:
If the rows are connected between you and the Haram, there is no harm. You see the ma'mum (those praying behind the imam) when they bow, when they prostrate, and when they stand up. If the rows are connected between you and the Haram, there is no harm in that due to dire necessity. However, if there is a field, or… between you and the Haram where there is no one, or streets where cars and people walk, is this valid? Yes.
I went to Makkah in the last ten days of Ramadan and stayed in Dar al-Tawhid, which is the closest place to the Haram, so close that one can see the Ka'bah. Some of the women prayed with the congregation in the Haram inside this house for the entire ten days. As for me, I prayed on the night of the twenty-seventh, the twenty-ninth, and up to the twentieth. The people, or the worshippers, were crowded into this house. Is such prayer permissible?
The Shaykh:
If the rows are connected between you and the Haram, there is no harm. You see the ma'mum (those praying behind the imam) when they bow, when they prostrate, and when they stand up. If the rows are connected between you and the Haram, there is no harm in that due to dire necessity. However, if there is a field, or… between you and the Haram where there is no one, or streets where cars and people walk, is this valid? Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/87 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:05:22)
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