Fatwa ID: 05302

Answered by: Maulana Shadman Ahmed

Question

قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا (Al-Kahf : 109)

Would Salah break if بمثلى is said instead of بمثله?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

If the Imam recites a mistake that will change the meaning of the Qur’ān either by adding, subtracting, or reading another word in place of that word then the prayer will be fāsid. In this case, the mistake doesn’t change the intended meaning of the sentence.[1]

Only Allah knows best

Written by Maulana Shadman Ahmed

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

[1]`Ibn ’Abidīn, Muḥammad Amīn. Radd al-Muḥtār ’Alā al-Durr al-Mukhtār. Vol 1. Pg. 632. Dār al-Fikr, 1252H.

: وَإِنْ تَرَكَ كَلِمَةً – مِنْ آيَةٍ – فَإِنْ لَمْ تُغَيِّرْ الْمَعْنَى مِثْلَ – وَجَزَاءُ سَيِّئَةٍ – مِثْلُهَا – بِتَرْكِ سَيِّئَةٍ الثَّانِيَةِ لَا تَفْسُدُ وَإِنْ غَيَّرَتْ، مِثْلَ – فَمَا لَهُمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ – بِتَرْكِ لَا، فَإِنَّهُ يُفْسِدُ. عِنْدَ الْعَامَّةِ؛ وَقِيلَ لَا وَالصَّحِيحُ الْأَوَّلُ

Muftī Maḥmūd Ḥasan Ghangohī. FatāwāMaḥmūdiyyah, Vol.7. Pg.148-149