{"id":16955,"date":"2026-05-08T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:36:47","slug":"two-people-praying-together-stand-salah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=16955","title":{"rendered":"How Should Two People Praying Together Stand in Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Two People Praying Together<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ibn `Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: &#8220;I prayed with the Prophet one night. I stood at his left, so Allah&#8217;s Messenger took me by my head, from behind me, to put me on his right (side).&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/at-tirmidhi-imam-of-hadith-and-fiqh\/\">At-Tirmidhi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>When two people are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/congregational-prayers-virtues-and-rules\/\">congregational prayer<\/a>, where should the Imam be standing and where should the follower stand? A common practice is for the follower to be a little behind the imam. Is this correct?<\/p>\n<p>Watch this short video to get the answer with Sheikh Waleed Basyouni.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Faithiq Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/two-people-praying-together-stand-salah\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could you pray in congregation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}