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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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A woman interrupting the prayer of a person praying by passing in front of him

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does a woman interrupt the prayer of a woman by passing in front of her?

Answer:
It is correct that a woman does not interrupt the prayer, neither for a woman nor for a man. Rather, the interruption here is conceptual; it is not a physical interruption that invalidates the prayer. This is the correct view. There is strong disagreement on this issue. Some say, as in the hadith,
The prayer is interrupted by three things: a woman, a dog, and a donkeyالصلاة يقطعها ثلاثة المرأة والكلب والحمار
, and some say,
It is interrupted by a woman and a black, ugly dogتقطعها المرأة والكلب الأسود البهيم،
. The majority say no, nothing interrupts it. Rather, the meaning of "interruption" here is conceptual interruption, interrupting the perfection, not interrupting the reality, only interrupting the perfection. This is the position of the majority.
Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 14-03-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (48:31)

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