Prayer behind other sects
A Brief Description of the Question:
As selem aleykum. I'm a Sunni müslim and living in Azerbaijan.When we prayer with the community, for Shia are in the majority, we prayer behind them. I wonder whether my prayer is being accepted or not.if you answer my question, I'll be grateful to you.inşaallah your duty will go on till eternal.takabbelallah.
The Answer:
According to Sunni School scholars, two different decrees are claimed about a person who obeys a school imam who is not that person’s main school imam indeed.
According to Hanefi and Shafi’i scholars belief of the congregation is the main base in the prayer. That is to say, the prayer of imam must be sound according to the belief of a person who participate the praying congregation. With respect to the owners of this comment; a prayer of a Shafi’i follower is not sound when he performs his prayer under the imamate of a man who touched his hand to a woman or prayer of a Hanefi School follower is not sound when he performs his prayer with a Shafi’i imam whose body has bled. (el-Fıkhu’l-İslamî, II/180-181, 207; Ibn Abidîn,I/563).
As for the decree of Malikhi and Khanbeli School scholars, the belief of the imam is the main base. Referring to this consideration, does there exist nothing which harms the prayer in reference to the school of an imam, this prayer is sound even if an error exists according to the schools of the congregation. Considering this comment the prayer of a Shafi’i follower is sound under the imamate of a man who touched his hand to a woman or prayer of a Hanefi School follower is sound when he performs his prayer with a Shafi’i imam whose body has bled. (el-Fıkhu’l-İslamî, II/180-181).
To our knowledge, -especially on account of the unity of Islam- the decrees of Malikhi and Khanbeli School scholars should be preferred. For according to the belief of an imam –for example- is he ritually cleaned then he is ritually cleaned.
Thus, according to the decree which Ibn Âbidin, one of the Hanefi School scholars, preferred as long as fulfilling the obligations of prayer there is no inconvenience in the dependence of a Hanefi follower to a Shafi’i follower in the prayer or vice versa. As a matter of fact, although many people among the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) or the descendant following the companions were interpreters of Islamic law and had different opinions, they used to perform their prayers in the dependence of the same imam. (Ibn Abidîn, I/564).
The indicated considerations above are valid for Shi’a School too. In other words, they can perform their prayers in the dependence of a Sunni imam.
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