The Shaykh: In the Maghrib prayer, he does not leave us an opportunity to recite al-Fatihah. Is he correct, or are we correct?

The Shaykh : Something else.

The questioner: Your Eminence.

The Shaykh : The Shaykh : In the Maghrib prayer, he does not leave us an opportunity to recite al-Fatihah. Is he correct, or are we correct?

The Shaykh: They mean byThe Shaykh : You mean?

The questioner: Yes, hehehe.

The Shaykh: I thought I was the one being referred to, so I did not understand the speech. This question is actually important to me, because the imam's silence after he finishes reciting al-Fatihah, to allow the follower to recite al-Fatihah, involves two matters or two problems: The first is that this pause has no basis in the Sunnah, and it is not permissible for a Muslim in general, and for imams in particular, to introduce into the religion of Allah what has no basis in it. All that those who seek to justify the legitimacy of this pause can cite is a hadith narrated in the Sunan through al-Hasan al-Basri from Samurah ibn Jundub: Then the narrators differed regarding the wording of this recitation, which is: "when he pauses from the recitation." The hadith has many chains through Yunus ibn 'Ubayd al-A'ili, who narrates it from al-Hasan al-Basri, who is a distinguished Tabi'i, and he narrates it from Samurah ibn Jundub. These chains narrated from the narrator from al-Hasan, who is Yunus ibn 'Ubayd al-A'ili, differed from al-Hasan. Some said what you heard: Some said: And some said: When a researcher in hadith looks at the differences of the narrators from this narrator in these three ways, he says: This hadith has a disturbed text.