Prostrating on the cap

Question

A certain man wears his cap pulled down onto his forehead, leaving the back of his head uncovered, so that his prostration falls on the cap. Will the prayer be valid in this way or not? This man also leads the prayer as imam.

Answer

It is better (afdal) for the forehead to be on the ground when prostrating, although the prostration is valid even when the cap is on the forehead and one prostrates on it. But if the forehead was not placed at all — neither directly on the ground nor on the ground by means of the cap — but remained raised, so that only some part of the cap was placed on the ground while the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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