What is the ruling on placing children in the rows between the men so that they do not play around during the prayer, if they have a row of their own?

The questioner : ... The boys can be distributed among the men, because if you leave them in the back, they might start laughing and cause disturbance for the worshippers. Is there any harm in distributing them among the worshippers?

The Shaykh : ... But there is another prohibition that frequently occurs nowadays; you find someone next to you, and moments later he slips out of your hand and a gap appears. So, neither this nor that is appropriate. Therefore, the closest view is that I had started answering regarding the hadith and clarified that the hadith is weak, and I said that it can be used as a reference based on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . This hadith is not explicit in what we are discussing, but it indicates that those who should be near the imam and behind the imam are those of maturity and understanding, meaning the first... not children. Secondly, it should be from the specific category of those obligated to perform acts of worship. Therefore, it was reported in Sunan al-Nasa'i with a sound chain that when the prayer was established, Ubayy ibn Ka'ab moved to the first row and found a boy behind the imam, so he gently took him and moved him to take his place. And during part of the prayer, something must have happened to the boy, just as it came in the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud: "So I was taken, neither close nor far."

The questioner : I did not know how much I had prayed.

The Shaykh : Ah, well done. The point is that after the prayer, he explained to him the reason that led him to move him back and take his place, which is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . By observing this meaning, it can be said: that the boys are placed behind the row, but it is not obligatory to adhere to this because it is not established in the Sunnah... he passed in front of the prayer and no one rebuked him...