The Hanafis' Position on the Invalidity of the Prayer of Those Who Advance Ahead of the Imam

The Shaykh : The Hanafis hold that the prayer of the imam who advances ahead of the followers is invalid, and that the prayer of the followers who advance ahead of the imam is invalid. In their view, this issue is a matter of scholarly disagreement with the majority, similar to the ruling on a woman praying beside a man or advancing ahead of a man in the row. They also say it is invalid. The answer is the same as the previous answer. This is contrary to the mutawatir Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), sometimes in words and sometimes in actions.
And you know his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) and he said the opposite regarding women. This does not indicate the invalidity of the prayer, for it only establishes a methodology and a share for men to compete to reach the first row of prayer and the one following it, and so on, and the opposite is the case for women. Therefore, from the perspective of jurisprudence here, if women stand and pray behind an imam, and many of them do so, it is not said here that the best rows for women are the last ones.
Because this is an isolated case from what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended in the first hadith. The Hanafis argued for their position of invalidating the prayer of those who pray around a woman or behind a woman with a report (athar) narrated from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, which is not authentic, and moreover, it is not traced to the Prophet. It states: "Place them at the back, just as Allah has placed them at the back." They say that Ibn Mas'ud said this, and the report is in the Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq al-Yamani, and perhaps in other works. First, it is not said regarding such a report, even though it is not authentic, what was said about the commands we referred to earlier regarding organizing the rows and the imam advancing ahead of the rows, that this necessitates a command but does not invalidate the prayer if this command is violated. And this is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.