The ruling on one who leads people in prayer while in a state of major ritual impurity, forgetting it
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Honorable Shaykh! The imam of a mosque had intercourse with his wife and then led the people in the Fajr, Zuhr, and 'Asr prayers, and he did not remember that he was in a state of major ritual impurity until the time of Maghrib.
So what is required of him?We say: He has to perform the full ritual bath and repeat his prayers, but as for the congregation, they owe nothing.
Honorable Shaykh! The imam of a mosque had intercourse with his wife and then led the people in the Fajr, Zuhr, and 'Asr prayers, and he did not remember that he was in a state of major ritual impurity until the time of Maghrib.
So what is required of him?We say: He has to perform the full ritual bath and repeat his prayers, but as for the congregation, they owe nothing.