The ruling on correcting the imam if he makes a mistake in recitation
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A man is praying the regular voluntary prayer in one of the mosques, then the congregation arrived and prayed the obligatory prayer behind him, and this was during the prayer where the recitation is loud. Then the imam made a mistake in one of the surahs. What is the position of this person who is in the regular voluntary prayer? Does he correct him or not? Then he completed his regular voluntary prayer and began [praying] after he had completed it, and he finished it with the congregation who were praying in the second surah, and then he made a mistake in the same situation. What is his position while he is praying, and after he has finished the prayer? Does he correct him or leave him?
If the mistake changes the meaning, it is obligatory to correct him; because it is not permissible to leave someone in error regarding the Book of Allah the Exalted. And if it does not change the meaning, it is not obligatory for him, but since he finished the regular voluntary prayer, I did not understand from the question that he joined them.
Did he join them, or is this regular voluntary prayer a post-prayer one?The questioner: This regular voluntary prayer is a post-prayer one.
The Shaykh: So the answer is as you heard.
If the mistake changes the meaning, it is obligatory to correct him; because it is not permissible to leave someone in error regarding the Book of Allah the Exalted. And if it does not change the meaning, it is not obligatory for him, but since he finished the regular voluntary prayer, I did not understand from the question that he joined them.
Did he join them, or is this regular voluntary prayer a post-prayer one?The questioner: This regular voluntary prayer is a post-prayer one.
The Shaykh: So the answer is as you heard.