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[quote][quote][b]criteria of imams' selection[/b]
1. should be based on knowledge. 
2. communication skills.
Theses two reference only.[/quote]
[center]The Imam[/center]

The prayer can be offered behind every person whether he is pious or impious. However, if it is possible to select an imam, the Prophet (sws) is reported to have said that this responsibility should be given to the person who reads the Qur'an the most. Then if all the people among whom the selection is to be made are equal as far as reading the Qur'an is concerned, then the one who is the most aware of the Sunnah should be selected and if in this aspect too the concerned individuals are equal, then the person who was the first to migrate and if in this aspect too they are equal then the person who is the eldest. He further said that a person should not lead the prayer when he goes to the place of some other imam; in such a case, he should pray behind that imam.[size=1][red]1[/red][/size=1]

The Prophet (sws) has said that an imam should not prolong the prayer because there can be sick people behind him, and the weak and the elderly.[size=1][red]2[/red][/size=1] Anas (rta) reports: "I have never seen anyone offer the prayer lightly and yet in a thorough manner than the Prophet (sws); such was his concern that he would shorten the prayer if he heard a child crying thinking that his mother would be apprehensive for him."[size=1][red]3[/red][/size=1]

An imam should straighten the rows of the prayer with great care and vigilance. Nu'man Ibn Bashir says that the Prophet (sws) would straighten our rows of the prayer as if he would be straigtening arrows from them.[size=1][red]4[/red][/size=1]

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1. Muslim, No: 673.
2. Bukhari, No: 671.
3. Bukhari, No: 676.
4. Muslim, No: 436.
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