The ruling on one who mixes the ḍād and the ḍāʾ in al-Fatihah
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The questioner : Also, some people say, and not the astray. Huh? With the ḍād. Until we meet. So do we say that this does not make the recitation of al-Fatihah valid?
The Shaykh : We say yes, Abu Abd Allah said it this way, because one must pronounce it with its letters. However, the well-known position in our Hanbali school is that this is excused, and they reasoned this by saying that distinguishing between the ḍād and the ḍāʾ is difficult, because not everyone is able to distinguish between them. You find some imams, some imams who lead people in prayer, pronounce this ḍād as a heavy ḍāʾ, or something else. He makes it heavy, yes, he fills his mouth with it, and the astray, yes. So we say that this is a matter that is difficult for people to distinguish between the ḍād and the ḍāʾ, just as some people also exaggerate with the ḍād, to the point that it approaches the ṭāʾ, and this middle path is the best of things.
The questioner : The apparent view of al-Fadl, meaning my pillar.
The Shaykh : Meaning, he, he, he cannot pronounce it.
The questioner : And what they say is that he does not pronounce it except.
The Shaykh : They say yes, because they have accustomed themselves to this.
The Shaykh : We say yes, Abu Abd Allah said it this way, because one must pronounce it with its letters. However, the well-known position in our Hanbali school is that this is excused, and they reasoned this by saying that distinguishing between the ḍād and the ḍāʾ is difficult, because not everyone is able to distinguish between them. You find some imams, some imams who lead people in prayer, pronounce this ḍād as a heavy ḍāʾ, or something else. He makes it heavy, yes, he fills his mouth with it, and the astray, yes. So we say that this is a matter that is difficult for people to distinguish between the ḍād and the ḍāʾ, just as some people also exaggerate with the ḍād, to the point that it approaches the ṭāʾ, and this middle path is the best of things.
The questioner : The apparent view of al-Fadl, meaning my pillar.
The Shaykh : Meaning, he, he, he cannot pronounce it.
The questioner : And what they say is that he does not pronounce it except.
The Shaykh : They say yes, because they have accustomed themselves to this.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1195بعض الناس يقول (ولا الظالين)...📔 الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع - ابن عثيمين - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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