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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The correct place for the follower to say "Ameen" when the imam says "not those who have earned Your anger, nor those who have gone astray"

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The Shaykh : The evidence for saying "Ameen" is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
When the Imam says Amin, say Amin, for if anyone’s utterance of Amin synchronnises with that of the angles, he will be forgiven his past sins. إذا أمن الإمام فأمنوا فإنه من وافق تأمينه تأمين الملائكة غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه
Sunan Abi Dawud 936Sahih (Al-Albani)

This text was explicit in the permissibility of the follower saying "Ameen" with the imam or after the imam has said "Ameen," meaning he should also say "Ameen." So, once the legitimacy of the follower saying "Ameen" is established, we should not understand from the previous hadith:
When the Imam says: 'Ghair-il-Maghdubi `alaihim Walad-Dallin (i.e. not the path of those who earn Your Anger, nor the path of those who went astray (1.7)), then you must say, 'Ameen' وإذا قال الإمام غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضآلين فقولوا آمين
Sahih al-Bukhari 4475
that it means it should be after the imam finishes reciting "not those who have gone astray." As for the detail, it came in the second hadith, which is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
When the Imam says Amin, say Amin إذا أمن الإمام فأمنوا
Sunan Abi Dawud 936Sahih (Al-Albani)
The first hadith says:
when he says: Not (the way) of those who earned Your anger, nor of those who went astray,[1:7] then say Amin إذا قال غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين فقولوا أنتم آمين
Sunan Ibn Majah 846Sahih (Darussalam)
But in the second hadith, there is an addition that should be added to the first hadith. The first addition is the explicit statement of the follower saying "Ameen" behind the imam, and the second addition is that he should say it after the imam says "Ameen" or after the imam has said "Ameen."
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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