Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

The Prayer Behind a Fasiq Imam Who Is Not the Ruler

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
This questioner says: May Allah reward you. If the imam is a fasiq (open sinner) and not the one in authority, does one pray behind him?

Answer:
This is a point of disagreement among the scholars, which we have mentioned. Yes.
Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 04-02-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (52:27)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa