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Q: Can I hold the Quran during Taraweeh? Mufti Abu Layth

salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith imaam imams prayer leader tarawih tarawih prayer taraweeh prayer maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis wajib waajib wajibat koran quraan al-quran madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib niyyah niyah niyat niyya niyyat

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[Music] [Music] can I hold the Quran during and what are the according to this well according in to the majority of the M it's absolutely fine to hold a mus hold the Quran during

0:41

Salah and to pray especially they all the majority of them accept that in na without a problem any kind of non-obligatory prayer some say even obligatory prayer like the Sha okay and including actually the Han as well the h the Malik IM Malik is very clear on non on sun prayer like to be fine on the obligatory prayers this is a harsh higher level of strictness because of the obligatory nature but there is um actually a

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Hadith I say Hadith a narration of that her servant uh uh Zan her her slaves the at the time he would lead in Salah uh whilst reading from the mus whilst reading from the Quran and that I believe is transmitted in bukari so I mean um and there's Transmissions from other people from Medina like shab IM Malik's teacher Imam Malik's own Transmissions many people like I said in to read from the mus is absolutely fine

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IM Abu was of the understanding that it would invalidate the prayer because there's too much action taking place even now his he abuu and Imam Muhammad they said that it would not invalidate the prayer but it was Mak and then they give a they give a reasoning saying that it's Mak because it has

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and between it has a form of resemblance to the Jews or the Christians now does it really or not or you know is the question and here some of the Latter day hanfia like people like J said well they said that when they said it was Mak

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that was if you intended such not said not if you were doing it without that intention right so basically it's fine according to most people okay to hold and that's what I would say to hold a mus during Salah in there's nothing wrong with that okay

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2017, May 17). Q: Can I hold the Quran during Taraweeh? Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eht09oha180/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2017. "Q: Can I hold the Quran during Taraweeh? Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded May 17, 2017. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eht09oha180/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-ehT09oHA180,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Q: Can I hold the Quran during Taraweeh? Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2017},
  month = {5},
  date = {2017-05-17},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eht09oha180/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eht09oha180/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}