The ruling on reciting the opening supplication during the bowing
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Your Eminence! There is an elderly man who, when he arrives and the imam is already bowing, begins with the opening supplication and does not say: Subhan Rabbi al-Azim (Glory be to my Lord, the Magnificent). Then the imam stands up while he is still bowing. Is this rak'ah considered valid, and does he have to repeat the prayers if this rak'ah is not valid?
He thinks, then, that the opening supplication is said in the first rak'ah, from the beginning of the prayer. He must perform the prostration for forgetfulness, if we make the prostration for forgetfulness obligatory upon him; because he left off what is obligatory, which is saying Subhan Rabbi al-Azim. His prayer is valid as long as he says the takbir for entering the prayer while standing, so the prayer is valid, and he does not have to repeat it, and nothing is required of him.
He thinks, then, that the opening supplication is said in the first rak'ah, from the beginning of the prayer. He must perform the prostration for forgetfulness, if we make the prostration for forgetfulness obligatory upon him; because he left off what is obligatory, which is saying Subhan Rabbi al-Azim. His prayer is valid as long as he says the takbir for entering the prayer while standing, so the prayer is valid, and he does not have to repeat it, and nothing is required of him.