The ruling on praying behind an imam who is a follower of religious innovation (bid'ah)
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: Is it permissible to pray behind an imam who is a follower of bid'ah (religious innovation), if this imam is the regular imam?
Answer:
If his bid'ah (religious innovation) does not make him a disbeliever, pray behind him. But if he is a disbeliever, do not pray behind him; he is to be boycotted. It is not befitting for the people of bid'ah (religious innovation) to be imams in any case, but if people are afflicted with them, and his bid'ah (religious innovation) does not make him a disbeliever, pray behind him, especially for the Friday prayer and the festivals, as the Salaf (the earliest generations) did.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: Is it permissible to pray behind an imam who is a follower of bid'ah (religious innovation), if this imam is the regular imam?
Answer:
If his bid'ah (religious innovation) does not make him a disbeliever, pray behind him. But if he is a disbeliever, do not pray behind him; he is to be boycotted. It is not befitting for the people of bid'ah (religious innovation) to be imams in any case, but if people are afflicted with them, and his bid'ah (religious innovation) does not make him a disbeliever, pray behind him, especially for the Friday prayer and the festivals, as the Salaf (the earliest generations) did.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 107 هل يجوز للجمعيات الخيرية إخراج زكاة الفطر بعد العيد؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com (1:39)
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