Praying behind a person with baras (leucoderma) and a leper

Question

What is [the ruling on] praying behind a person afflicted with baras (leucoderma, a skin disease with white patches) and a leper (judhami) — that is, what is [the ruling on] appointing a person with baras or a leper as imam? [Please give] the answer with a reference to a book.

Answer

If someone has baras, and the baras is not slight but has spread over the body, and people feel aversion towards him, then appointing him as imam is makruh. So it is in "Radd al-Muhtar", vol. 1, p. 378. The case of the leper in this matter is even graver than that of a person with baras: if the leprosy (judham)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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