Salaah

Q: What is the Sunnah method of going down in sajdah? Should we go down into sajdah without placing the hands on the knees, or go down with placing the hands on the knees?

Q: In the area which I live in is a Barelwee Musjid. I read most of my salah in this Musjid. For Fajr Salah the Muazzin, who is a Shafi'ee, performs the Salah. The thing is that the trustees don't allow him to read Qunoote Naazila because they are Hanafee so he is forced to leave it out. I heard that Qunoote Naazila is like wajib for Shafees. I feel that the Salah is deficient so I read Fajr at home. Will it be better for me to read Fajr in this Musjid or should I continue to read it at home? 

Q:

1. There is a narration which gives severe warnings for those who walk in front of a person who is performing salaah. If there is a person praying in the main prayer hall of the musjid, how far in front of him should we pass and be not considered to have walked in front of the person performing  salaah as mentioned in the narration?
2. If I perform sunnah salaah in the musjid and after I finish, I find someone also performing salaah exactly behind me, whether it's one row or several rows behind, should I wait till he finishes then get up to leave, or I can just immediately get up and whether this is considered as walking in front of people performing salaah?

Q: I live in New Zealand and know that Qata Rahmee for the sake of Dunya is becoming common. I have seen that Imam of our masjid is good at Qata Rahmee. He has not spoken to many for months and years. This grieves me too much as he is not a common person. His place is much higher than a person like me but such act and that is only for petty things (Dunyawi matters) create bad impression. I need your help to know that the Namaz and the imamat of such Maulana is kamil or unacceptable especially since he is a person who knows all that?

Q: I would like to know what is the shari implication on not performing salaat with jamaat. I noticed that many men who are fit and able do not make any attempt to come to the musjid for salaat with jamaat. Some even live within walking distance to the musjid. Also what I find very strange they are regular with work and other sporting activities.

Q: I would like to know when performing the 3 rakaats of fard maghrib, do you recite a surah in the third rakaat after reciting surah fatiha or do you just recite surah fatiha and then go into ruku?

Q: I travel daily from Midrand to Witbank +- 110kms daily to work. I need to know whether the salahs I have to perform daily are in the Qasr state and also if I return home and if I have missed my salahs during the day I have to perform Qaza in a Qasr state.

Also if the Juma salah is missed then whether qaza for the fard salah is 2 or 4 rakaat.  (also in above state)

Q: Great virtues are mentioned in the Ahadith for praying 4 rakaats after Zuhr and Isha.

Should one perform these apart from the confirmed 2 rakaats sunnah that are prayed after Zuhr and Isha i.e. first 2 rakaats and then 4 rakaats? And these 4 rakaats should they be prayed with one taslim or 2 by 2 rakaats?

Q: Praying four rakaats after the fard of salaat Esha is mentioned in Ahaadith. Its mentioned that the virtue is that one will gain reward as having prayed these four rakaats on Laylat al Qadr. There are both Marfu and Mawquf reports regarding this. Should this be prayed after the 2 rakat sunnah muakkadah as adding 2 rakaats seperately or adding 4 rakaats either seperately or in two sets? 

I read in Qutul al Quluub that Ibn Masud (RA) did not like to pray after the Fard a same amount of Nafila rakaats, they would pray Isha and thereafter 2 rakaats and thereafter 4 rakaats. Is this true?

In Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 2/206 there is a report from Umar (RA) that he did not like to pray after Jumuah the same amount of nafil i.e. 2 rakaat. What Ibn Masud (RA) would do, is that 2 rakaats and thereafter 4 rakaats with one taslim?

Q: It is becoming quite common nowadays in many Musjids that late comers make their own jamaat in the sahen area of the Musjid. Kindly explain in detail the shar'ee ruling regarding this?