ANSWERED: Women leading Salah...

[muslimah2000]

Can a woman become an Imam and lead the women in Salah?

[Strive4Allah]

Ok..hope you understand what i have to say: According to imam abu haneefa it is jaiz...on the conditions...no1...women arent called for it...meaning telling em we gonna do jamat and they'll come...and it is makrooh...if two women do jamat then it would b ok...wallahu aalam...and doing it once in a while...can hardly remebr we done it in mishakat year...will answer it in detail inshallah...if someone else doesnt already answr it by then..

[muslimah2000]

Ok..hope you understand what i have to say: According to imam abu haneefa it is jaiz...on the conditions...no1...women arent called for it...meaning telling em we gonna do jamat and they'll come...and it is makrooh...if two women do jamat then it would b ok...wallahu aalam...and doing it once in a while...can hardly remebr we done it in mishakat year...will answer it in detail inshallah...if someone else doesnt already answr it by then..



so its makrooh to do it unless two women are doing it?srry i got confused lol

[Strive4Allah]

No i meant its jaiz but makrooh to do jamat...sis listen i cant remebr properly so inshallah will try n chek my mishakat year xercise book n will let you know in detail if it hasnt already been answered by then...wallahu aalam...
.s u know what you just taught me?

[muslimah2000]

ok sis JazakAllah...wat did i teach u? :D

[Strive4Allah]

I gotta find out properly b4 i say it ona...

[muslimah2000]

ok :confused:

[Raeesa]

Women's Congregational Prayer in the Hanafi School

Answered by Sidi Faraz Rabbani and Shaykh Ilyas Patel


I understand that a women in the hanafi madhab cannot lead a congregation of women. From what someone had told me, it is considered Markruh Tahrimi. I informed my mother of this. The next time she was with a group of women, they told her to lead. She refused saying that it is Makruh in the Hanafi Madhab. The other women there then said that Aisha (ra) lead a congregation of women, so why shouldn't they pray as such? I was wondering if I could get the daleel for why a women can not lead a congregation of women.




In the Name of Allah the Merciful and Compassionate,

On the authority of Aisha (Allah be pleased with her), the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “There is no good in the congregation of women.” Ahmad, and Tabrani in Awsat)

At the same time, it is reported by Rayta that Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) led them in the prayers and stood in between, in a fard prayer. ( Imam Abdul Razzaq in his Musannaf)

Imam Zafar Usmani explains the two ahadith by stating that that first narration explains the general offensiveness of women’s own congregation . Sayyida Aisha's leading of prayer, which is stated in the latter hadith, indicates the permissibility at times and to teach the women the proper method of prayer.

We do not negate the permissibility of this matter, to such an extent that if they were to pray in congregation of their own, we would state the validity of the prayer. (Imam Zafar Usmani, I’la al-Sunan 4: 215)

Without such a reason, however, a congregation of women would be prohibitively disliked (makruh tahriman), [Maraqi al-Falah, Hashiyat Ibn Abidin.] because it is going against that which has been legislated, which is that women either pray alone (given the normal case would be for them to pray at home), or behind a male congregation.

The Hanafi imams also note that had it been something that was a general recommendation or generally permissible for women, then the female companions of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), who were most avid to seek Allah's pleasure would have adopted it as a widespread practice. But there is nothing to indicate that this was the case, from which the Hanafis (and many other mujtahids from the salaf) understood that the narrations of permissibility indicate the exceptional cases, explained above, and not the rule.

It is also important to understand that the nature of legal responsibility differs between men and women. That which is best for men to do is not necessarily best for women, and vice versa. And all are commanded seek the pleasure of Allah, as He wants from them.

And Allah knows best.

Shaykh Ilyas Patel and Faraz Rabbani.

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Assalamu alaikum,

1. Women’s prayer in congregation

In the Hanafi school, it is not recommended for women to pray together in congregation. Rather, it is prohibitively disliked, for the reasons mentioned in the answers below. [Please read.]

As such, in general, a Hanafi sister should not to pray in a women’s only congregation, and for a group of Hanafi sisters should not pray in congregation together, for the reasons explained in the attached answers.

However, if one honestly fears that not praying in such a congregation could lead to undue confusion, argument, or other forms of discord (fitna), the scholars say that it would be superior to go ahead and pray, because of the principle that, “Avoiding harm is given precedence over achieving benefits,” and because, “The lesser harm is borne to avoid greater harm.”