Prostration of recitation in the loud prayer is a recommended practice
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. In another question, he says: The imam prayed, and while reading, he recited a verse containing a prostration. Does he prostrate?
The Shaykh:
Yes, if the imam recites a verse containing a prostration and the prayer is a loud prayer, he prostrates and the one praying behind him follows him; because the prostration is a recommended practice (sunnah). As for if it is in a quiet prayer, he does not prostrate; because it causes confusion for the people praying behind him, and they think that he has made a mistake, because they did not hear the verse containing the prostration to know that this is the prostration of recitation. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well.
The questioner:
Shaykh Salih, some imams surprise the people praying behind them with their prostration while they have not reached the reason for it. Is there any guidance? May Allah preserve you.
The Shaykh:
The imam reads for a month and reads the verse of prostration, so they know the reason for this and follow him. This only happens in the quiet prayer. Therefore, the jurists said that his prostration in the quiet prayer is disliked (makruh); because it causes confusion for the people praying behind him, and the prostration is not obligatory, it is only a recommended practice (sunnah). So if it results in confusion for the people praying behind him, he leaves it. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. In another question, he says: The imam prayed, and while reading, he recited a verse containing a prostration. Does he prostrate?
The Shaykh:
Yes, if the imam recites a verse containing a prostration and the prayer is a loud prayer, he prostrates and the one praying behind him follows him; because the prostration is a recommended practice (sunnah). As for if it is in a quiet prayer, he does not prostrate; because it causes confusion for the people praying behind him, and they think that he has made a mistake, because they did not hear the verse containing the prostration to know that this is the prostration of recitation. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well.
The questioner:
Shaykh Salih, some imams surprise the people praying behind them with their prostration while they have not reached the reason for it. Is there any guidance? May Allah preserve you.
The Shaykh:
The imam reads for a month and reads the verse of prostration, so they know the reason for this and follow him. This only happens in the quiet prayer. Therefore, the jurists said that his prostration in the quiet prayer is disliked (makruh); because it causes confusion for the people praying behind him, and the prostration is not obligatory, it is only a recommended practice (sunnah). So if it results in confusion for the people praying behind him, he leaves it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4479- سجود التلاوة في الصلاة الجهرية سنة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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