The Ruling on Overtaking the Imam in Prayer and Deeming the Forbidden Permissible
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The questioner:
It was deformed, but no offspring remained for it. What is its status, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
I do not know it, but it does not live long. It is established in Sahih Muslim that it does not live for more than three days. Yes.
The questioner:
And the hadithJami` at-Tirmidhi 582Sahih (Darussalam) whose image is the image of a donkey, what is the meaning of this hadith?
The Shaykh:
This is a prohibition of overtaking. It is not permissible for the ma'mum to overtake the imam. He says,Mishkat al-Masabih 1141 or that his image is made into the head of a donkey. This is a remote possibility. It is obligatory for the ma'mum not to raise his head until his imam raises it; he does not overtake the imam in the prayer, meaning. Yes.
It was deformed, but no offspring remained for it. What is its status, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
I do not know it, but it does not live long. It is established in Sahih Muslim that it does not live for more than three days. Yes.
The questioner:
And the hadith
Does not the one who raises his head before the Imam fear that Allah will
إنما يخشى الذي يرفع رأسه قبل إمامه أن يحول اللهThe Shaykh:
This is a prohibition of overtaking. It is not permissible for the ma'mum to overtake the imam. He says,
God’s Messenger as saying, “Does he who raises his head before the imam not fear that God may change his head into a donkey’s?”
صلى الله عليه وسلم أما يخشى الذي يرفع رأسه قبل الإمام أو أن يحول الله رأسه رأسه حمار،
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من باب لبس الحرير للمريض — islamhouse.com (12:36)
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