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4.0 GROUP PRAYER
4.1 Its status
1. Jama`ah is an emphasized sunnah.
2. It is disliked for women to attend jama`at, but there is no harm in old women going out for fajr, maghrib and `isha.
4.2 Regulations for the follower
1. Whoever desires to enter into the salah of another [as his follower] needs two intentions : the intention of salah and the intention of following.
2. The follower does not recite behind the imam.
3. Whoever followed an imam, and then came to know that [the imam] was not in [the state of] wudu’, repeats the prayer.
4.3 Imamate
1. The most worthy of people of imamate is the most knowledgeable of the sunnah; if they are equal [in that] then the best reciter of the Qur’an; then if they are equal [in that] then the most precautious of them; then if they are equal [in that] then the eldest.
2. It is disliked to send ahead [as imam] : a slave, a transgressor, a blind man and an illegitimate child, but if they took the lead, it is valid.
3. It is appropriate that the imam not prolong the salah for [the followers].
It is permissible :
that one with tayammum lead people with wudu’,
that one who wiped on khuffs [lead] people who washed [their feet].
A standing person may pray behind one sitting.
4.4 Impermissible Imamate
1. It is not permissible for men to follow a women or a [non-adult] boy.
2. A clean person should not pray behind one with a constant drip of urine, nor [should] a clean woman [pray] behind one with istihadah, nor
3. A reciter behind an unread, nor
4. A clothed person behind a naked.
5. One who performs ruku` and sujud should not pray behind one who is gesturing.
6. One who is performing fard should not pray behind one who is performing nafl, nor behind one who is performing another fard.
7. One performing nafl may pray behind one performing fard.
4.5 Arrangement of Rows
1. Someone who prays with one [follower] makes him stand on his right. If they are two [or more] then he steps ahead of them.
2. The men line up, and then [behind them] the boys, and then the women [at the back].
3. If a woman stands beside a man, the two of them taking part in one [and the same] salah, his salah is spoiled.
4. It is disliked for women to pray in jama`ah on their own, but if they do then the imam stands in their midst.
4.6 Prayer in and around the Ka`bah
1. Salah is permissible - [whether it be] obligatory or optional.
2. If the imam prays with a group, and some of them put their backs to the imam’s back, it is permissible, but whoever puts his back to the imam’s face, his salah is not valid.
3. When the imam prays in the Sacred Mosque, the people form circles around the ka`bah, and pray the prayer of the imam. Whoever among them is closer to the ka`bah than the imam, his salah is valid if he is not on the side of the imam.
4. The salah is valid for one who prays on the top of the ka`bah.
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