The Imam Appointing Someone Else for One Day a Week
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am the imam of a mosque, and I attend your class one day a week, so I appoint someone to lead the prayer in my place on that day. His question is: Does this count as negligence in the imamate?
Answer:
If it is only one day a week and the person who leads the prayer is absent, there is nothing wrong with it, because this is a valid legal excuse.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am the imam of a mosque, and I attend your class one day a week, so I appoint someone to lead the prayer in my place on that day. His question is: Does this count as negligence in the imamate?
Answer:
If it is only one day a week and the person who leads the prayer is absent, there is nothing wrong with it, because this is a valid legal excuse.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن ذلك : أن الناس في عصر الصحابة والتابعين ومن بعدهم كانوا يأتون المساجد حفاة في الطين وغيره — islamhouse.com (1:14:47)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.