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Question
There is personal enmity between me and another person. If he greets me with salaam, is it permissible for me to respond after he has gone away, or do I have to return his salaam immediately?
Answer
Praise be to Allah.The Hanafis and Shaafa’is are of the view that it is obligatory to
return the salaams immediately.
Ibn ‘Aabideen said: delaying returning the salaam for no valid reason
is makrooh tahreeman (very makrooh or disliked to the point of being
almost haraam). The sin is not lifted by returning the salaam, but by
repentance.
Source: IslamQA (Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid)