The Imam’s Notification When He Forgets to Recite Aloud
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Question:
If the imam forgets to recite al-Fatihah aloud, should he be notified of this? What is the method of notification? And if he is notified, does he start from where he reached, or does he restart from the beginning with the loud recitation?
Answer:
Yes. The night prayer, meaning... the Friday prayer, the prayer of... the prayer of the dawn, the fasting of the sun, these are the ones where the recitation is silent during the day, where the imam did not recite aloud.
If he does not recite aloud, the one praying behind him should notify him to recite, to recite aloud. If the one praying behind him recites aloud, the imam realizes it, so he continues and does not go back to the beginning of what he recited; rather, he continues to recite aloud from where he stopped. For example, if we assume he realized it during al-Fatihah, after he had recited "Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'in" silently, he says and recites aloud "Ihdina al-sirat al-mustaqim" and does not restart from the beginning, because the pillar is not recited [again].
If the imam forgets to recite al-Fatihah aloud, should he be notified of this? What is the method of notification? And if he is notified, does he start from where he reached, or does he restart from the beginning with the loud recitation?
Answer:
Yes. The night prayer, meaning... the Friday prayer, the prayer of... the prayer of the dawn, the fasting of the sun, these are the ones where the recitation is silent during the day, where the imam did not recite aloud.
If he does not recite aloud, the one praying behind him should notify him to recite, to recite aloud. If the one praying behind him recites aloud, the imam realizes it, so he continues and does not go back to the beginning of what he recited; rather, he continues to recite aloud from where he stopped. For example, if we assume he realized it during al-Fatihah, after he had recited "Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'in" silently, he says and recites aloud "Ihdina al-sirat al-mustaqim" and does not restart from the beginning, because the pillar is not recited [again].
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/29 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:06:58)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.
