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    Question ID: 31800Country: India

    Title: Somebody said that when you are offering salam to a mass of people say Ass Salam Alaikum if it is a one person say only salam Alaikum.

    Question: Somebody said that when you are offering salam to a mass of people say Ass Salam Alaikum if it is a one person say only salam Alaikum.is it a correct procedure?

    Answer ID: 31800

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 712/593/B=1432) No, it is not right method. سلام عليكم is used to greet the dead ones. The well-known and popular method of greeting the living ones is السلام عليكم, though one greets one person or more.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India