salaah

Q: If a person can offer Salaah on a namaz bed by facing his legs towards the qiblah, then should he offer Salaah like this or by sitting on a chair?

Q: What distance is required between a person and a musalli in order for the person to be allowed to walk past in front of him? Will this ruling be different for the haram in Makkah since it is extremely difficult to move without passing in front of anybody there?

Q: If someone goes for studies to a place which is around 400 km away from her place of residence, then when she comes back home she will read qasr namaz or normal namaz?

Q: I have a number of confusions about Salaah and will be grateful for clarification.

1. If one recites Surah Fatiha in part but fears a mistake or miss pronunciation and recites it again from the start, will sajdah-e-sahw become waajib? If yes, what portion of Fatiha repetition will invoke it?

2. Sitting in tashahud position, if I am tired and my hands roll beyond the thighs with fingers running over my knees, how bad is this?

3. In summer, I have a habit of folding up my shirt sleeves well above the wrists and trousers well above the ankles and perform my Salah in the same state. I am told that this is forbidden, how bad is it if one folds one's garments up in Salah? If my lower garment reaches my ankles, (men's ankles should be exposed) is tucking trousers up at waste or folding at the bottom, still forbidden? I live in a cold country, We don't get garments made these days, we buy clothes ready made, whatever we get and sometime these are a little oversize, out of difficulty and not arrogance. How can one reconcile?

Q: When the Imaam ends the qiraat before going to ruku, some people drop their hands before the Imaam says the takbir. What is the Shar'ee ruling regarding this? Is it permissible for them to drop their hands?

Q: When you perform salaah, when doing takbeer to start, should we look up or down? And after raising from rukuand saying "samirallahhulimanhamida", some says you have to say "allahumma rabbanawakalhamd" and others only "rabbana lakalhamd"? Which one is correct according to sunnah? And is it obligatory to say it? If i did not say it, are all my prayers invalid?

Q: I have many qaza namaz remaining. I want to offer a nafil namaz on Friday for 7 weeks for sharh e sadr. Can I do this or first I have to offer qaza salats?

Q: We had a tashkeel of 17 days in Karachi. When we reached the railway station for Lahore we offered four rakaats of asr before the train left from the station. Is it done or we should perform two rakaats?