The ruling on children praying in the rows and the ruling on removing them from them
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In one of the mosques, there is a circle for boys to memorize the Qur'an, and the children come next to their parents on the basis that they do not play with one another, so I do not know the ruling in that; because they break the row?The Shaykh: I mean: the summary of your question: Is it permissible for the children to be in the row?
Yes, it is permissible for the boys to be in the row even if they break the row; because they are human beings, not stones and not pillars, so they do not break the rows, and it is not permissible for anyone to remove them from their place—also—even if they are directly behind the imam in the first row, it is not permissible for anyone to remove them from their place;Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (Whoever precedes to what no Muslim has preceded to, he has the most right to it) And because their presence and their expulsion from this place leads to their hatred of the mosque and the people of the mosque, and because their expulsion from that leads to enmity arising between their fathers and the one who expelled them, and because their presence in that leads to the boys gathering in one row, so their disturbance and their occupying the people becomes more severe,And as for the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): (Let those of you who have reached maturity and understanding be next to me) So he is, by Allah, on the eye and the head, and above every one who has a saying other than the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), but what is the meaning of the hadith?Did the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Only those who have reached maturity and understanding should be next to me,Until we say: Expel these?The meaning: That those who have reached maturity and understanding must advance so that they are the ones who are next to him,So there is a difference between saying: Only those who have reached maturity should be next to me,And his statement: Let those who have reached maturity be next to me.
Yes, it is permissible for the boys to be in the row even if they break the row; because they are human beings, not stones and not pillars, so they do not break the rows, and it is not permissible for anyone to remove them from their place—also—even if they are directly behind the imam in the first row, it is not permissible for anyone to remove them from their place;Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (Whoever precedes to what no Muslim has preceded to, he has the most right to it) And because their presence and their expulsion from this place leads to their hatred of the mosque and the people of the mosque, and because their expulsion from that leads to enmity arising between their fathers and the one who expelled them, and because their presence in that leads to the boys gathering in one row, so their disturbance and their occupying the people becomes more severe,And as for the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): (Let those of you who have reached maturity and understanding be next to me) So he is, by Allah, on the eye and the head, and above every one who has a saying other than the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), but what is the meaning of the hadith?Did the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Only those who have reached maturity and understanding should be next to me,Until we say: Expel these?The meaning: That those who have reached maturity and understanding must advance so that they are the ones who are next to him,So there is a difference between saying: Only those who have reached maturity should be next to me,And his statement: Let those who have reached maturity be next to me.