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What is the ruling on the prayer of a congregant who prays behind an imam who has eaten camel meat and has not performed ablution, knowing that?

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Scholars differed concerning the invalidation of ablution by eating camel meat, and the preponderant opinion is that it does invalidate it. However, the prayer of a congregant behind an Imam who does not believe that eating camel meat invalidates ablution is valid according to the majority of scholars. Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah was asked about the prayer of the adherents of the four Madhhabs behind each other, and he replied: "Yes, their prayer behind each other is permissible, just as the Companions and those who followed them in goodness, and the four Imams after them, used to pray behind each other despite their disagreements on these aforementioned issues and others. No one among the Salaf said that they should not pray behind each other. Whoever denies this is an innovator, astray, and a contravenor of the Qur'an, the Sunnah, the consensus of the Salaf of the Ummah, and its Imams." Thus, some of them prayed behind others despite their differences regarding the recitation of the Basmala, ablution from touching the private parts and women with desire, and ablution from eating camel meat. Examples include the prayer of Abu Hanifa and Al-Shafi'i behind the Maliki Imams of Madinah, the prayer of Abu Yusuf behind Al-Rashid after he had cupping, and the prayer of Ahmad behind an Imam from whom blood had exited. From the foregoing, it becomes clear that prayer behind an Imam who does not perform ablution after eating camel meat is valid.

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