Correcting Mistake Behind the Imām

 *Correcting Mistake Behind the Imām*

If the follower makes a mistake after the Salām of the imām, then he is like an individual praying alone. If the follower who was late owes a baʾdī due to the imām and a qablī due to his own mistake, the qablī will suffice for him. If one forgets a rukūʾ and remembers it while in prostration, he must return to the standing position. It is recommended that he recite a portion of the Qur’ān, perform the rukūʾ and then prostrate after the Salām. If a person forgets one prostration, and remembers it after standing, he must return to the sitting and perform the missed prostration. This is unless he had performed the sitting before he stood up, in which case he would not repeat the sitting. Whoever forgot two prostrations should fall straight into prostration without sitting. In all of these cases he prostrates after the salām.

If he remembers the prostration after raising his head from the rukūʾ that follows it, he:

1. Continues in his prayer

2. Does not return

3. Voids the deficient rakʿa

4. Adds a rakʿa at the end building [upon what he has already done]

5. Prostrates before the Salām, if the mistake was from the first two rakʿas and he remembered it after completing the third rakʿa.

6. Prostrates after the Salām if it was not from the first two rakʿas, or was from them but he remembered before completing the third rakʿa. This is because the sūra and the sitting were not missed.

Whoever says the final Salām while in doubt about the completion of the prayer, his prayer is invalid.