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**orgagsUpsepsy** · 07-07-2011, 10:05 PM

Assalamu Alaikum,

The congregation has already started. You walk into the masjid late and you find the first row to be full. You are only person who can start the second row. You know that no one else is coming to join the jama'ah (so that you can wait).

A few questions in this scenario:
1) Do you tap someone from the middle, the extreme right or the extreme left of the first row? Assume that all of them are knowledgeable and will know what the tap indicates.

2) Let's say you have tapped someone from the middle and he steps back to join you. What do the others in the first row do? Do they all adjust positions until there is no gap left?

Answers as per the Shafi'i school would be much appreciated (if of course, there is ikhtilaaf to begin with).

Jazakumullah Khair

Wassalam

07-07-2011, 10:05 PM	#1
orgagsUpsepsy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	What to do in this situation during jama'ah? Assalamu Alaikum, The congregation has already started. You walk into the masjid late and you find the first row to be full. You are only person who can start the second row. You know that no one else is coming to join the jama'ah (so that you can wait). A few questions in this scenario: 1) Do you tap someone from the middle, the extreme right or the extreme left of the first row? Assume that all of them are knowledgeable and will know what the tap indicates. 2) Let's say you have tapped someone from the middle and he steps back to join you. What do the others in the first row do? Do they all adjust positions until there is no gap left? Answers as per the Shafi'i school would be much appreciated (if of course, there is ikhtilaaf to begin with). Jazakumullah Khair Wassalam
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