#253: Ruling on the Salat of a Musbil
QUESTION
” I saw an hadith that the prophet said the prayer of a musbil(the person that drags his trousers 👖) will not be accepted by Allah. Since we know it will not be accepted can we still pray 🙏 behind him…………..please i need answers. it urgent”
Answer
Alhamdulillāh
The Hadīth to which you refer is recorded by Abū Dāwud – rahimahullāh – from Abū Hurayrah – radiyallāhu ‘anhu
As follows:
بينما رجل يصلي مسبلا إزاره إذ قال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم اذهب فتوضأ فذهب فتوضأ ثم جاء ثم قال اذهب فتوضأ فذهب فتوضأ ثم جاء فقال له رجل يا رسول الله ما لك أمرته أن يتوضأ ثم سكت عنه فقال إنه كان يصلي وهو مسبل إزاره وإن الله تعالى لا يقبل صلاة رجل مسبل إزاره
“Once a man was observing Salāt while his Izār was overflowing. The Messenger of Allāh – salallāhu alayhi wasallam – said to him: go and repeat your Wudhū. He went and made his Wudhū. Then another man came forward and said: O Messenger of Allāh, why did you command him to repeat his Salāt? He then kept quiet and then said: he was observing the Salāt while his clothes were overflowing (Isbāl) and Allāh – ta’ālā – does not accept the Salāt of the one that is overflowing his garment”
The Ulamā of Hadīth have explained that the Hadīth is weak.
Shaykh Muhammad Nāsiruddīn Al-Albānī – rahimahullāh – said that in Ad-Da’īfu Al-Jāmi’i.
Despite that, the majority of the Ulamā hold that observing the Salāt in Isbāl is Harām. But that the Salāt is not rejected.
This is because the Hadīth is weak.
Whereas Ibn Hazm – rahimahullāh – said that the Salāt is not acceptable basing his verdict on other Athār from the Salaf and not on this Hadīth.
As for praying behind the one who does the Isbāl, what is obligatory is to choose as an Imām the one who is pious and mist observing of the Sunnah and upright. Not the one who engages in things that are Harām.
However, there is an agreed upon Precept (Qā’ida) among the Fuqahā that :
من صحت صلاته لنفسه، صحت لغيره
“Whosoever his Salāt is Valid for himself is Valid for others too.”
Therefore, your Salāt behind him is valid though your duty in that situation is to draw his attention to the wrongness of his deeds.
Allāhu A’alam
Bārakallāhu fīkum
