Answering the phone with a throat-clearing sound during prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. During prayer, I answer the phone and clear my throat. Or during prayer, I answer the phone and make a clearing sound. We do this and hang up the line to indicate that the person in the house is praying, so that the caller can try again at another time. What is the ruling?
Answer:
Without speaking. If it is silencing the phone without speaking, or clearing one’s throat so that it is understood that you are praying, this is a dispensation. It is permissible to clear one’s throat in order to alert the one seeking permission to enter. However, if there is speech, meaning you answered with words while praying, your prayer is invalidated by this.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. During prayer, I answer the phone and clear my throat. Or during prayer, I answer the phone and make a clearing sound. We do this and hang up the line to indicate that the person in the house is praying, so that the caller can try again at another time. What is the ruling?
Answer:
Without speaking. If it is silencing the phone without speaking, or clearing one’s throat so that it is understood that you are praying, this is a dispensation. It is permissible to clear one’s throat in order to alert the one seeking permission to enter. However, if there is speech, meaning you answered with words while praying, your prayer is invalidated by this.
Source
شرح زاد المستقنع [29] — alfawzan.live (1:20:19)
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