Yasir Qadhi – Imam Makes a Mistake in Recitation & Realizes After Completing Salah – Ask Shaykh YQ #185

			Our next question today coming from Munich, Germany from Munich, Germany. Brother Musab says that a
minor incident occurred and there must be a very minor incident, which caused a bit of a
controversy. So they're emailing me to shed some light on this issue. And they're saying that
recently in their Isha Salah, their Eman made a mistake when he was in the second rocker. And
somebody thought it was a mistake, but they only verified that they made a mistake after the Salah
was over. And so they then deferred that, okay, he made his mistake in the tilawat in some sort of
he was reciting. And they verified too late. Maybe somebody knew the sooner but he was too shy, or
		

			he wasn't certain, for whatever reason, they didn't correct the Imam. And now the Salah is over. And
so they then found out he did make a mistake, then they deferred. Some said he should do search the
sahoo immediately. And some said he should repeat the entire site. And they ended up repeating the
entire slider. But then they're now emailing me is that the right thing that they should have done?
Or not?
		

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			The response to this question is that the majority of our scholars have said that if the mom makes
an unintentional mistake in other than the fact,
		

			then in this case, accidental mistakes in the recitations after the fact you do not need anything to
be done. If no correction was given, obviously, if the correction is given, he is going to correct
you right there, then everybody would be happy, no problem. The problem comes where the controversy
comes, what if the correction is not done, and he recites a mistaken recitation, so he either mixes
up and he says something that he shouldn't have said, or he goes to another surah, which is again,
very common. And by the way, this is something that shocks many people to hear, but it is inside
bodyside Muslim, that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself date that he forgot the next
		

			iron, he was struggling with it. And then nobody corrected him because they were so embarrassed, or
I should not say very good, I should say. They were out of respect that they don't know what's going
on. Because he is Rasulullah says that I'm so and so he said in Mr. Bhatia, I am a human being like
you I forget, as you forget. And so if you know you get stuck in the Salah, then somebody should
correct. So he laid the foundation. And if we think about it, it is a blessing from Allah, that
Allah subhana wa tada allowed the humanity of our profitsystem to be shown this way. Can you
imagine? You know, if we didn't have this, what will you do? So he's hold us a law has originally
		

			intended for this to happen, so that we can learn because if Allah had wanted to the promises would
not have made a single, you know, stuttering or stammering or not, it wouldn't have happened. But
the fact that this happened, it opened the doors for us to learn, and he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
literally said to us, I am a human being like the rest of you. I forget, as you forget, he literally
said unseco, math and so on, I forget, as you forget. And so if one of you is not able to finish the
verse, or whatever makes a mistake, let somebody correct him, let somebody say, the verse to him.
And so we learn from this, that of course, this is what should be done. But it is very common for
		

			the Imam to be in a sutra that nobody else knows, or that he makes a mistake. And the the guy behind
him is not sure himself, and therefore he doesn't do anything or maybe even out of shyness. And so
the whole Salah goes on, and it is only discovered later now we're assuming that is unintentional.
Or we do believe that it's not possible for a righteous Muslim and an Imam to intentionally Oh the
villa this is this is very dangerous could even be a type of cover to play around with the book of
Allah. So, we assume automatically that it is an unintentional mistake. So, as we said, the majority
of the fukuhara and this is the Hambali and Shafi and Maliki method, their position is that such
		

			unintentional mistakes do not constitute anything that invalidates the Salah, even Kodama says that
even if the manner or the the meaning was changed and other than the Fatiha it does not negate the
validity of the Salah, nor even the fact that this person was your mom, so your Imam is still there
and your mom so if he were to make a mistake, it's not as if like if he were to break his will or
something that's obviously changes his situation. But if you make a mistake accidentally in the
tilawat, outside of the fact that because again, the tailor will have the
		

			factor has a bigger deal because that means that the fact that has a record of the salah and if the
Imam if all of the people are equally qualified or more qualified than this Imam then this to make a
mistake and the fact that
		

			that is egregious that changes any type of meaning will make the select button. However, if the
entire community is of a similar nature of knowledge, and there's nobody amongst them that can
recite properly and this person recites like the rest of them, then they are forgiven because of
this and they're going to have such an Imam. But in any community where somebody knows the proper
recitation, then that person must be chosen for the fight to ask for other than the Fatiha a mistake
that is made a pronunciation error, a substitution that is accidental moving from one verse to
another surah accidentally because again, it's very common that there's not too shabby verses in the
		

			Quran. anything of this nature happens then inshallah This is going to be overlooked, and there's no
need for either says that the Soho or much less a repeating of the Salah, your Salah is still valid
completely, and that's when the error is accidental and not done in the Fatiha. Now, the exception
here is the Hanafi scholars which is probably why your Imam felt the need to repeat that the early
Hanafi scholars they said that, if a mistake is done, that changes the meaning drastically and is
not corrected, as not corrected, then that entire sila is null and void and the Salah should be
repeated all over again. But then the Hanafi scholars different what defines a drastic mistake. What
		

			is the mistake that is so bad that the Salah will be considered to be completely null and void. And
to be honest again, you can ask your local hand if you're Aloma and the experts of the Hanafi
school. But it is pretty clear even to an outsider like me that the position of the Hanafi has
evolved over time and later hunter fees were much more locked in Aberdeen in his famous book or
rather, even Aberdeen. He says that who doesn't make a mistake of this nature, you know, to make the
Salah bartered and to ask them to repeat over a trivial mistake. It is too much to do. And so Allah
knows best but I would say that the default position, a minor unintentional mistake that is done
		

			outside of the Fatiha it does not invalidate the Salah nor does it require says that the so who
rather it is forgiven by Allah subhana wa tada because who amongst us is that perfect in memory that
every single time you know, prayer can be given without any mistake therefore, these things should
be overlooked and no problem and there is no no penalty or repetition repeating of the salah and
Allah subhanho wa Taala knows best