Ruling on building residential apartments above a mosque
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Question:
This questioner asks a similar question: When they built the mosque, they built apartments above it for the residence of the imam and the mu'adhdhin.
Answer:
No, one does not reside above the mosque, neither the imam nor the mu'adhdhin, because the roof of the mosque is part of the mosque, and the resident does things there that are not permissible in the mosque, such as sexual intercourse, or a menstruating woman wearing what is not permissible there. However, below the mosque, as we mentioned, if a residence is built under the mosque—meaning they build it and place dwellings beneath it and the mosque above it—there is no harm, because it is established on this basis from the start. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
This questioner asks a similar question: When they built the mosque, they built apartments above it for the residence of the imam and the mu'adhdhin.
Answer:
No, one does not reside above the mosque, neither the imam nor the mu'adhdhin, because the roof of the mosque is part of the mosque, and the resident does things there that are not permissible in the mosque, such as sexual intercourse, or a menstruating woman wearing what is not permissible there. However, below the mosque, as we mentioned, if a residence is built under the mosque—meaning they build it and place dwellings beneath it and the mosque above it—there is no harm, because it is established on this basis from the start. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 02 من 05/ دورة علمية في شرح كتاب الصيام من الروض المربع / رؤية هلال رمضان / صالح الفوزان / الفقه — youtube.com (1:01:21)
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