Completing the Qur'an in the loud prayers
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: An imam leads people in prayer and recites for them in the congregational prayers, starting from the beginning of the Qur'an until he completes it after two or three months. What is the ruling on his doing this?
The Shaykh:
This was not part of the Sunnah nor the practice of the Salaf. If the imam recites the entire Qur'an in the obligatory prayers until he finishes it, this is not the practice of the Salaf. Rather, it is something that has occurred in this time, so it should not be done. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says:
The Shaykh:
And this may open the door to difficulty for imams, who think that this is obligatory, and that the one who does not recite the entire Qur'an is not a suitable imam, or that the ma'mumin (those praying behind the imam) also say that so-and-so does not know and is not suitable because he does not complete the Qur'an, and thus harms arise from this. So this practice is left; this practice is abandoned. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: An imam leads people in prayer and recites for them in the congregational prayers, starting from the beginning of the Qur'an until he completes it after two or three months. What is the ruling on his doing this?
The Shaykh:
This was not part of the Sunnah nor the practice of the Salaf. If the imam recites the entire Qur'an in the obligatory prayers until he finishes it, this is not the practice of the Salaf. Rather, it is something that has occurred in this time, so it should not be done. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says:
The Shaykh:
And this may open the door to difficulty for imams, who think that this is obligatory, and that the one who does not recite the entire Qur'an is not a suitable imam, or that the ma'mumin (those praying behind the imam) also say that so-and-so does not know and is not suitable because he does not complete the Qur'an, and thus harms arise from this. So this practice is left; this practice is abandoned. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 31 — archive.org (51:49)
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