What is preferable regarding taking one's place in the row before or after the imam
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is preferable and the stronger position in your view regarding the matter of people taking their places in the row before the imam or after him?
Answer:
It is all permissible, if Allah wills. If they line up before the imam arrives or after he arrives, it is all permissible. The hadiths have come with both this and that. The matter is broad in this. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is preferable and the stronger position in your view regarding the matter of people taking their places in the row before the imam or after him?
Answer:
It is all permissible, if Allah wills. If they line up before the imam arrives or after he arrives, it is all permissible. The hadiths have come with both this and that. The matter is broad in this. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 01-04-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (40:43)
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