Jamaat Salaah and Imaamat

Q: Can I perform Salaah with my wife if I miss jamaat? Will we get the sawab of jamaat.

Q: I perform most of my salaah with my family at home. The musjid is not very far away from where I live. Will I receive the reward of performing salaah with jamaat through making jamaat with my family at home?

Q: A person is late for fajr in the musjid. If he prays his two rakaats of sunnah, he will miss the congregational prayer, but will still have time to pray individually. What is most important: that he prays his Sunnah or that he prays in congregation?

Q: A person arrives late to the masjid and misses a number of rakats with the imam. When the imam says salam, he thus has a number of extra rakaat to make up. But he doesn't remember how many. In order to find out, may he pray slowly and see how many extra rakaats the people around him do, since they joined the prayer at the same time as him?

Q: In the UK the weather is often cold and wet and I am a young teenager. Sometimes I want to go to pray salah with the jamaat but due to the weather my mother stops me fearing that I will become ill. Shall I disobey her and fulfil Allah Ta'ala's command or obey her and read at home? Would I get a sin for not obeying my mother or missing salah with jamat?

Q: Is it correct to surmise that young scholars using microphone for Salah and allowing their Salah to be broadcast in the homes for ladies to hear may be motivated by show, particularly in Fajr where the number of saffs are few and there appears to be no obvious need for microphone? If not show, what else could a reasonable rationale be?

Q: I have questions related to following a Shafi'ee Imaam in salaah.

1. During Fardh of Fajar Salaah, if the Imaam did not recite Qunoot, is Sajda-e-Sahw necessary?
2. If Qunoot was not recited, Sajda-e-Sahw was not done either, is the Salaah valid?
3. What is the correct form of Sajda-e-Sahw for Shafi'ee Imaam? Just before Salaam or After Thashahud?
4. When Shafi'ee Imaam recites Qunoot in Fajar Salaah, what should the Hanafi followers do?

Q: My parents sometimes ask me to do some work for them and it happens to be at the same time as jamaat salaat at the Masjid. If I do their work, I will miss salaat with jamaat and if I go to the Masjid, I can't do their work because it had to be done at that time. Should I do their work and miss jamaat or give preference to jamaat?

Q: I am a female Muslim hanafi from UK and work in a school. At the time of salaah the women gather and make salaah in jamaat with a women leading them. I do not join them since I have learnt that women should read salaah individually. They keep asking me why I do not join. Could Mufti Sahib please provide a well-proven detailed answer in English with the translations of the Ahaadith that are proofs for our viewpoint.

Q: Is it permissible for someone who is not a Qari (someone well versed in qiraat) to read the different qira'ats (sab'a) while in Salaah. Does it invalidate the Salaat if he does?