Is My Salaah Valid If I End It After the Imaam?
The Salaah remains valid if the worshipper performs his Salaam after the Imaam because he was still occupied with the Tashahhud or Durood; the correct procedure varies depending on one's progress in the prayer.
Your Salaah is valid. However, the correct procedure is that when you have completed your Tashahhud and are occupied with reciting the Durood Ibrahim, and the Imaam performs the Salaam, then you should follow the Imaam, perform the Salaam, and complete your Salaah.
The text consists of two parts: an admonition to perform the Salaah on time and a legal question-and-answer. The admonition cites a Hadith that describes the Salaah as a light, a proof, and a means of salvation on the Day of Judgment and warns against its neglect. The question concerns the validity of the prayer when the worshipper performs his Salaam after the Imaam because he was still occupied with the Durood Ibrahim. The answer affirms the validity and distinguishes two cases: if one is already at the Durood, one should follow the Imaam and perform the Salaam; if one is still in the Tashahhud, one completes it first. As a legal source, Raddul Muhtar is cited. The answer comes from the Fatwa Department of the Jamiatul Ulama in Durban and is based on Hanafi fiqh. The text is addressed to practising Muslims who pray in the congregation.
Worldview
what this means- What, according to this text, is the root of the evil?
- Turning away from God, indifference, idolatry
- Where does the evil reside?
- in the heart, the will, or the soul of the individual
- What helps against it?
- prayer, worship, meditation, repeated practice; keeping the commandments, maintaining order, fulfiling one's duties
- What is human being according to this text?
- willed by God, with a task and a responsibility
- Where is history heading?
- the message stands outside of history
- What does the text base its claim on?
- on the founder or prophet of the tradition; on tradition, the fathers, an established practice
- To whom does the text's call for devotion apply?
- to one's own fellow believers
- Where is the text's criticism directed?
- at one's own community and at oneself
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What the text calls for
- dem Imaam beim Salaam folgen (ritual)
- den Tashahhud vollenden (ritual)
- die Salaah pünktlich verrichten (ritual)
Passages cited
Musnad Ahmad
Measured
- Basic stance
- 0 from -2 to 2
- Insistence
- 1 of 3
- Reach
- 3 of 5
- Concreteness
- 3 of 3
- Boundary
- 0 of 3
- Time
- past 2, present 2, future 2