Ruling on the prayer of the imam who is hated by the people

The research aims at setting the legal origin of leading prayer by imam with the unrecommendation of his followers. The researcher has employed texts from prophetic hadith and sayings of legists. The research falls into four sections. The first one defines the constituents of the research title and the texts mentioned in the research. The second tackles the reasons behind the reprehensibility of the imam. The third discusses the case of imam leading people who hate him and the validity of his prayer. The fourth tackles the reasons from which reprehensibility originate. Finally, the results and research references were mentioned.