Recordings › How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth · 2 Apr 2017 › Segment 6 of 13
Do women pray differently from men in the Maliki school?
salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith madhab mazhab school of law madhahib mazahib madhaahib rukoo bowing sajdah sajda sujood prostration maaliki malikite malikiyyah muftis haram haraam madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib ulama ulema ulamaa du'a duaa duaas supplicationIs there a difference between men's and women's salah in the Maliki school?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: the Maliki school makes no distinction in principle between men's and women's salah. Some scholars only advise that a woman be mindful of modesty in ruku' and sujud.
In more detail
Mufti Abu Layth reads a follow-up question on whether the Maliki school distinguishes between the salah of men and women. He says some schools draw an absolute distinction in how a woman places her hands, sits and prostrates, while the school of Madinah draws no distinction in principle. He adds that many Maliki scholars give advisory guidelines that a woman may pay attention to modesty in ruku' and sujud where her situation requires it, without going into detail, and concludes that in essence there is no distinction.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedIs there a distinction between the salah of men and women within the Maliki madhhab?
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Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school draws no distinction in principle between the salah of men and women, with only advisory guidelines that a woman may be more mindful of modesty in ruku' and sujud.
“the school of Medina the Maliki maab from a principal perspective it does not highlight any differences between men and women in Salah”
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means and how it is performed both the and the within the school of Medina I hope that's been of some help remember us in your duas let's take a look at a few questions uh as follow-up questions that have been concerning some people within uh the Maliki maab and how they should be looked at is there a distinction between the Salah of men and women within the Maliki maab okay now that is a very good question because some
schools of law um draw out an absolute distinction from how the woman places her hands to how she sits to how she does to so there's in some Ms you see that and in some there's no zero distinction the the school of Medina the Maliki maab from a principal perspective it does not highlight any differences between men and women in Salah it doesn't say that women should stand differently or they should Place their hands differently or sit differently or it does not say that men and women from
a principal perspective are the same when it comes to Salah however there are some advisory guidelines highlighted by some uh many of the within the mhab that say that a woman could pay attention to some aspects of modesty and in light of that she can maybe uh just if a certain situation requires more modesty she can just adapt to that that's all that now they don't go into too much detail they just say if she was doing suud and if she was doing Ru she could just be more mindful of
that and her environment that's all but in essence there is no distinction between men and women within in the school of Medina another question when the Hadith mentions forbidden times of prayer what does that mean does that mean there's certain times in which we cannot pray our Salah absolutely not you can pray your Salah at any time that includes sunrise sunset what the Hadith is speaking about is na voluntary praise not your uh not
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