# Is my prayer valid if my trousers slip and part of my backside shows for a moment in sujud?

*Trousers slipping in sujud: momentary exposure of the 'awrah*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/13/
- Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (47:35–50:16)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2855s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/

**Topics:** Prayer; Dress and appearance

**Question as asked:** What if, during sujud, the trousers hang down and some part of the buttocks is momentarily exposed? What is the ruling on this?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes, the prayer is still valid: a momentary exposure of the extended 'awrah in sujud does not invalidate it, though one should dress more modestly. The core 'awrah may never be exposed.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says a momentary exposure of the extended 'awrah, such as the upper buttocks or thigh slipping into view during sujud, does not invalidate the salah, though one should dress more modestly in the mosque, while the core 'awrah may never be exposed.

**Evidence, his words at 48:37:** “that kind of partial revealing um for that short dur duration within Salah within sujud let's say because mostly it would occur in sujud does not violate the Salah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2917s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth raises the case of loose or low-hanging trousers that reveal part of a man's backside for a few seconds in sujud. He says such people should dress more appropriately, with a jacket or a longer shirt, since exposing oneself in a mosque does not befit the place. But he says this partial, momentary exposure does not violate the salah. He explains that the school of Madinah divides the 'awrah into a core part, the genitals and rectum for men, which may never be exposed, and an extended part, such as the thigh or upper buttocks, whose momentary exposure during a movement or in sujud does not compromise the prayer, though the whole must be covered.

## Sources and names cited

- 'awrah

## Transcript (machine tier, 47:35–50:16)

[47:18] before for men between the navel and knee so what if somebody was playing sports and they had these kind of long shorts on can they just come in and pray like that well if you're covering that AA of course you can okay just to clarify as I mentioned before the main thing is covering the AA if it's covered there isn't a problem another thing I'd like to highlight is uh and it's I suppose perhaps more so uh linked to the fashion of the age sometimes people wear certain types of jeans or trousers men especially that kind of hang loose or drop slightly uh from the the hip and

[47:57] especi and and even if they're not sometimes you find people when they're going into sujud they may have regular trousers regular jeans on but when they're going into sujud as it kind of lowers itself revealing um uh revealing a bit bit of themselves whilst they're in sjda you could see so only for maybe a few seconds of people go into sjah and you know some people are struggling with a t-shirt or a shirt and and we've all probably seen this phenomenon what is the ruling of this well I mean needless to say that they should really take heed in dressing a bit more appropriately that goes

[48:37] without say you know like maybe a jacket or I don't know or or wear a type of shirt or something that's more appropriate and modest rather than kind of exposing part of your backside so to speak when you're in sujud for other people in a Masjid this doesn't befit the environment of a Masjid but that said does that violate the actual Salah that kind of partial revealing um for that short dur duration within Salah within sujud let's say because mostly it would occur in sujud does not violate the Salah so one thing

[49:15] to keep in mind is that the school of Medina when it comes to the a it divides them in two you have the and now although the entire must be covered but the is the core part of the and the is the extended part so the for men being the actual genitals and the rectum this must be covered I mean the whole thing must be covered but this cannot under any circumstances be exposed if the extended AA like the thigh or the upper part of the butters or things like this

[49:51] were momentarily exposed for a a short span of time within the Salah for let's just say during a movement like this or in suud that does not compromise the entire Salah okay so that's something definitely worth uh remembering and understanding that there is a distinction in the a within the school of Medina

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment BiN9UQPOpMA/s/13. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/13/

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