Jamaat during Haj

[smvashrafi]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


Dear Maulana Sahib

In one of your replies, (mount arafat question) i just need to clarify some thing you have said -

When mid-day arrives, it is Sunnat-e-Mu'akkidah to perform ghusl, or if water is scarce, then he may perform ablution (wudhu'). When the sun reaches its meridan (zawal), he must reach Masjid-e-Nimrah, in which he will be required to perform his four cycles of Sunnah prayer, and he then must settle down, in order to listen to the sermon (khutbah). Zuhr prayer will then take place, in which he must participate.

What i wanted to ask is that praying in the Masjid Nimrah and listening to their Khutbah isnt this against the principals of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat , when we have been told to steer clear of the bud mazhabis ?

Appreciate your time in answering.

Jazakallah

[Imam]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem,

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,

Thank you for your query regarding the bad-madhdhabis.

If you know that someone is a fasiq, or a bad-madh'hab, then normally you will not pray salah behind them as it is not permissable.

However where you do not know that an Imam is a bad-madh'hab or a fasiq, then you will pray your salah behind them as normal.

I was just going through the procedure that takes place during Hajj time, (regardless of any imams!), to a question that was asked by a brother.

I think that was what i was really focusing on, and not the praying behind a faasiq/bad-madh'hab imam.

I hope my explanation is understood by you, jazakallahu khayrann wa ahsanil jazaa'

M. Waseem Ashrafi