What is the ruling on a man using a woman as a sutrah in prayer?
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The questioner:
What is the ruling on a man using a woman as a sutrah?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
What is the ruling on using... What is the ruling on a man using a woman as a sutrah in voluntary and obligatory prayers?
The Shaykh:
A woman as a sutrah? Yes, indeed. Yes. It is permissible to place a person in front of him and pray behind him, so that the person is facing the qiblah and he prays behind him as a sutrah; there is no objection to that. As for facing his face, that is not disliked; it is disliked to pray facing the face of a man or a woman. But if it is toward his back, there is no harm in that. Yes.
What is the ruling on a man using a woman as a sutrah?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
What is the ruling on using... What is the ruling on a man using a woman as a sutrah in voluntary and obligatory prayers?
The Shaykh:
A woman as a sutrah? Yes, indeed. Yes. It is permissible to place a person in front of him and pray behind him, so that the person is facing the qiblah and he prays behind him as a sutrah; there is no objection to that. As for facing his face, that is not disliked; it is disliked to pray facing the face of a man or a woman. But if it is toward his back, there is no harm in that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم اتخاذ الرجل امرأة سترة في الصلاة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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