Fatwa #534823 September 2002South Africa
Performing Salaat with ones family? wife and daughters, etc.
Question
In an event of making Salaat at home can one make Jamaat with one's Wife and daughters. Please explain method and conditions.
Answer
Hereunder is our standard reply to similar queries.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.
A man and woman (husband and wife or Mahrams) may recite their Salaat
individually in one room.
There is no restriction with regards to the distance between them as long as
they are not reciting the same Salaat, i.e. they are reading their own
Salaat and not following each other. However, if the man is the Imaam and
woman is following him in that Salaat, then she should stand directly behind
him.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.
A man and woman (husband and wife or Mahrams) may recite their Salaat
individually in one room.
There is no restriction with regards to the distance between them as long as
they are not reciting the same Salaat, i.e. they are reading their own
Salaat and not following each other. However, if the man is the Imaam and
woman is following him in that Salaat, then she should stand directly behind
him.