Hadith 83

e religion. Pray behind him upon the way of dissimulation (Taqiyya), and proclaim Azaan and Iqama for yourself, and recited for it without being led by him. If you were to be free from recitation of the Surah before him, and there remains a Verse from it, and do Zikr of Allah-azwj. When the prayer leader performs Ruk’u, then recite the Verse and perform Ruk’u with it. And if you do not catch the recitation and you fear that the prayer leader might perform Ruk’u, then say what he had omitted from the Azaan and Iqama, and perform Ruk’u’’. [208]
And Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘The owner of the illness cannot lead the healthy, nor can the one with restriction lead the free, nor can the blind lead in the desert except if he faces towards the Qiblah, nor can the slave lead except his family’’. [209]
And Al-Sadiq-asws was asked, ‘What is least of what can be of the congregation? ’
He-asws said: ‘A man and a woman. When two men pray, one of them says, ‘I shall be your prayer leader’, and the other ones say, ‘But, I shall be your prayer leader’, both their Salat(s) are complete; and when one of them says, ‘I shall complete with you’, and the other says, ‘No, but I shall complete with you’, let them both resume’’. And it is not allowed for a bastard to lead, and there is no problem if a performer of Tayammum were to lead the Wud’u performers, and one with facial paralysis cannot lead the healthy, nor can a Bedouin lead the emigrants; and when you were to pray Salat (leading) a people, if you specialise yourself with the supplication apart from them, then you have offended the group. When the prayer leader prays a Cycle or two Cycles and he is afflicted by nose bleed, he should go forward and complete the Salat with them. When Salat of the group is complete, he will gesture to them, so they would perform Salat and he will stand and complete remainder of his Salat. There emerged a group from Khurasan, or from one of the mountains, and a person had led them (in Salat). When they came to Al-Kufa they were informed that he is a Jew. There isn’t upon them to repeat anything from their Salat. And it is not allowed for you to lead the group while you are mantled; and when you were to be behind the prayer leader in the second row and you find a gap in the first row, there is no problem if you were to walk to it and complete it. And when you were a prayer leader, upon you is to recite in the first two Cycles, and upon those who were behind you to glorify saying, ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj, and the Praise is for Allah‑azwj, and there is no god except Allah-azwj, and Allah-azwj is Greatest! ’
And when you were to be in the last two Cycles, upon you is to glorify like glorification of the group in the first two Cycles, and upon those behind you is they should recite Surah Al-Fatiha. And it is reported that in the first two Cycles, it is upon the group to listen to recitation of the prayer leader, and when it is a Salat having no loudness in it (Al-Zohr and Al-Asr), they should glorify, and in the last two Cycles it is upon them to be glorifying, and this is more beloved to me’’. [210]