One child standing in the saff with the men
Q: If there is only one child for salaah, must he stand in his own saff or must he stand in the adult saff?
Jamaat Salaah and Imaamat
Performing salaah in a musallah if there is a musjid in the vicinity
Q: Is azaan mandatory in a small office mosque where 2 or 3 jamaat prayers are held and not all? The above mentioned mosque has no speakers, no fixed imam and muazzin, whenever multiple people come then they pray in jamaat.
Performing fardh salaah behind one performing his sunnah salaah
Q: A late comer joins me in salaah while I'm performing my sunnah salaah. Is it permissible for me to change my intention of performing sunnah salaah alone to performing in jamaat?
When should the Imaam make the announcement to straighten the saffs?
Q: When is the sunnah time for the words to straighten the suffoof to be said. What is the ruling in the hanafi madhab regarding it?
Reward for performing salaah alone in a musalla
Q: We have a small musallah in our area. My question is, I am hoping to perform salaah as the imaam with 1, 2 to 4 musallies every day, but most of the time, I'm reading salaah alone as the imaam in front. Will I still get the full reward of salaah with jamaat?
Hanafi Imaam reciting qunoot in Fajr Salaah in a predominantly Shafiee masjid
Q: When the Shaafiee Imaam is not here, the musallis ask me to lead the Fajr Salaah. Since I'm a Hanafi, will it be appropriate for me to read qunoot with the niyyah of qunoot e naazila so as not to create confusion. It is a Shafiee masjid and many people are ignorant about these fiqhi ikhtilaafs.
I remember once a Hanafi Imaam led the Fajr Salaah and he did not read qunoot. After salaah there was a commotion and people started talking to one another that qunoot was not read. Please guide me what to do.
Na baaligh boys standing in the first saff with the men in salaah
Q: We have children who are not baaliqh attending the fardh salaah. They are standing next to their fathers in the first saff. They were requested on many occasions to have their sons read in the back saff.
Is my salaah nullified? Is it makrooh to have these young boys in the middle of the saff?
Running for salaah if one is late
Q: Can you run for salaah if you're late? I have seen prominent people doing this. Not outright running, but a very fast walk that a person will have to run after them if they want to catch up.
Ruling regarding a khunsa (hermaphrodite)
Q: There is a person who is a khunsa (hermaphrodite), but classified as a man now due to beard, urination etc. But he originally had two private parts. He does not have any attraction to any gender.
1. Is this person considered a khunsa or a man?
2. Is his imaamat of men valid? Or makrooh or what
3. Can a mukhannas be an imam?
From what I understand that it is a man but with womenly movements and speech
Giving preference to performing salaah with jamaat in the Musjid
Q: I received a message wherein the following Hadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) was mentioned:
Hazrat Anas bin Maalik (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “If food is served and the Iqaamah for salaah is given, then start with the food.”
The question that I wish to ask is that if one is at home and partaking of meals or one is at a function (e.g. waleemah or a braai etc.) and the food is being served, and the jamaat salaah in the musjid is about to commence, then what should a person do? Should one give preference to partaking of the food or should one attend the jamaat salaah in the musjid, as we have understood from this hadith that one should give preference to the food?