{"id":2696,"date":"2020-11-13T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:33:22","slug":"what-does-a-musaafir-do-if-he-doesnt-know-whether-the-imaam-is-a-musaafir-or-a-muqeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"What does a Musaafir do if he doesn&#8217;t know whether the Imaam is a Musaafir or a Muqeem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>What does a Musaafir do if he doesn&#8217;t know whether the Imaam is a Musaafir or a Muqeem?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. If a Musaafir does not know the status of the Imaam, whether he is a Muqeem or a Musaafir, and he follows him, what is the shariah ruling? This happens many a time in airports, bus stations, or even shopping centers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> If a traveller (Musaafir) follows an Imaam in Salaah without knowing if the Imaam is a traveller or not, the traveller will simply make an intention of following the Imaam in a Fardh Salaah. He does not have to mention the number of Rakaats that he is performing behind the Imaam.<\/p>\n<p>After the Imaam completes the Salaah, if it becomes known that the Imaam is a traveller, then the follower\u2019s Salaah (as a traveller) will be valid. This is usually announced by the Imaam at the end of the Salaah.<\/p>\n<p>However, if it becomes known that the Imaam is not a traveller and the traveller performed a shortened Salaah behind the Imaam, the traveller must <strong>repeat the Salaah <\/strong>as a full Salaah. <strong>(Fataawa Fareediyyah 3\/80-81) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a Musaafir do if he doesn&#8217;t know whether the Imaam is a Musaafir or a Muqeem? Q. If a Musaafir does not know the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}