# Do women pray differently from men in the Maliki school?

*Is there a difference between men's and women's salah in the Maliki school?*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/6/
- Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (34:34–36:30)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2074s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/

**Topics:** Prayer; The Maliki school; Women in Islam

**Question as asked:** Is there a distinction between the salah of men and women within the Maliki madhhab?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: 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.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** 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.

**Evidence, his words at 35:05:** “the school of Medina the Maliki maab from a principal perspective it does not highlight any differences between men and women in Salah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2105s)

## Longer summary

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.

## Transcript (machine tier, 34:34–36:30)

[34:28] 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

[35:05] 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

[35:43] 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

[36:20] 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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment BiN9UQPOpMA/s/6. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/6/

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