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Can I perform salah at a Barailvi mosque near my home and in the market?

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I have question regarding salah, just near my home there is mosque of Barailvi and sometimes I perform salah behind them to get jamat and sometimes when I stay in market, can I do like this?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

(Fatwa: 68/68/SD=01/1436)

It is makrooh to offer salah behind a Barailvi imam. You should only offer salah in Deobandi mosque though it is on a distance. However, the salah you had offered in Barailvi mosque were valid and you got the reward of jamah provided the imam of the mosque was not involved in such a bida’h that amounts to kufr.
قال الحصكفي: ويكره إمامة مبتدع – وقال: صلى خلف فاسق أو مبتدع نال فضل الجماعة إلخ وقال: تكره إمامة مبتدع لا بها وإن كفر بها فلا يصح الاقتداء به أصلاً . (الدر المختار مع رد المحتار: 2/256 كتاب الصلاة، دار إحياء التراث العربي).

Allah knows Best!

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

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