An Imambara Given to the Mosque and Used for Its Extension: Praying There

Question

In the Tirapur neighbourhood, in the city of Gorakhpur, there was an imambara (a building for gatherings in memory of Imam Husayn ﵁) adjoining a mosque on its eastern side. Twenty-six households of the neighbourhood were the managers of the imambara. Seeing the mosque’s lack of space, the managers of the imambara unanimously decided that the imambara should be given to the mosque, and after this decision they told the managers of the mosque: “We have given the imambara to the mosque; now extend the mosque quickly,…

Answer

In the case described, the managers’ unanimously giving the imambara for the extension of the mosque is a correct designation of its use (masrif). Prayer there is valid. The objectors should not object; rather, they should withdraw their objection.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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