Imaam going into ruku immediately after reciting the aayat of sajdah and making the intention of sajdah tilaawat in ruku

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In Fardh Salaah, as an Imaam, if I read an Aayah of Sajdah, can I immediately go into ruku at the end of the Sajdah Aayah? i.e. (not going down into a Sajdah Tilaawah), but making intention of sajdah in the ruku.

NB: I did this a few items without informing the congregation.

Please can Mufti Saheb inform me what is the correct thing to do.

Mufti Zakaria Makada · Accepted Answer

If you go into ruku immediately after reciting the aayat of sajdah and make the niyyat of sajdah tilaawat in the ruku, then your sajdah tilaawat will take place through the ruku, but the sajdah tilaawat of the congregation will not take place if they do not make the niyyat of sajdah tilaawat in the ruku. Therefore, it is better that you do not make the niyyat of the sajdah tilaawat in the ruku.

The fuqaha have written that if one recites the aayat of sajdah and immediately goes into ruku and thereafter goes into sajdah, then the sajdah tilaawat will take place in the sajdah of the salaah. Hence, in such a situation, the better thing for you to do is not to make the niyyat of sajdah tilaawat in your ruku so that the sajdah tilaawat takes place in the sajdah on behalf of yourself and the entire congregation.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

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