What is the remedy in the Sacred Mosque during the days of Hajj, according to the Madhhab of Abu Hanifa, if a man's prayer becomes invalidated due to being alongside a woman or her being in front of him without a barrier, when they are both praying behind a single imam and the imam intends for her to be led by him?
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The Hanafī jurists stipulated that there is no difference between performing the prayer in the Sacred Mosque (Haram) and elsewhere regarding what the questioner mentioned – namely, the invalidation of the prayer. However, the preponderant view among the majority of scholars is that the prayer is not invalidated, and that intentionally doing so is disliked (makrooh); because invalidating the prayer involves great hardship and enjoining what is beyond one's capability.
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