Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 31-38
Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 31-38
Chapter 5: The recommendation to place the hands on the knees when bowing, and the abrogation of tatbiq.
Al-Aswad and 'Alqama reported:
We came to the house of
'Abdullah b. Mas'ud. He said: Have these people said prayer behind you? We
said: No. He said: Then stand up and say prayer. He neither ordered us to say
Adhan nor Iqama. We went to stand behind him. He caught hold of our hands and made
one of us stand on his right hand and the other on his left side. When we
bowed, we placed our hands on our knees. He struck our hands and put his hands
together, palm to palm, then put them between his thighs. When he completed the
prayer he said. There would soon come your Amirs, who would defer prayers from
their appointed time and would make such delay that a little time is left
before sunset. So when you see them doing so, say prayer at its appointed time
and then say prayer along with them as (Nafl), and when you are three, pray
together (standing in one row), and when you are more than three, appoint one
amongst you as your Imam. And when any one of you bows he must place his hands
upon his thighs and kneel down and putting his palms together place (them
within his thighs). I perceive as if I am seeing the gap between the fingers of
the Messenger of Allah (may peace he upon him). (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 31)
This hadith is narrated on
the authority of Alqama and Aswad by another chain of transmitters and in the
hadith transmitted by Ibn Mus-hir and Jabir the words are:
"I perceive as if I am
seeing the gap between the fingers of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as he was
bowing." (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 32)
'Alqama and Aswad reported
that they went to 'Abdullah. He said:
Have (people) behind you
said prayer? They said: Yes. He stood between them ('Alqama and Aswad). One was
on his right aide and the other was on his left. We then bowed and placed our
hands on our knees. He struck our hands and then putting his hands together,
palm to palm, placed them between his thighs. When he completed the prayer he
said: This is how the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to do. (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 33)
Mus'ab b. Sa'd reported:
I said prayer by the side
of my father and placed my hands between my knees. My father said to me: Place
your hands on your knees. I repeated that (the previous act) for the second
time, and he struck at my hands and said: We have been forbidden to do so and
have been commanded to place our palms on the knees. (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 34)
This hadith has been
narrated by Abu Ya'fur with the same chain of transmitters up to these words:
We have been forbidden from
it and no mention of that has been made what follows it. (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 35)
Ibn Sa'd reported:
I bowed and my hands were
in this state, i. e. they were put together, palm to palm, and were placed
between his thighs. My father said: We used to do like this but were later on
commanded to place them on the knees. (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 36)
Mus'ab b. Sa'd b. Abu
Waqqas reported:
I said prayer by the side
of my father. When I bowed I intertwined my fingers and placed them between my
knees. He struck my hands. When he completed the prayer he said: We used to do
that but then were commanded to lift (our palms) to the knees. (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 37)
Chapter 6: The permissibility of squatting on the heels
Tawus reported:
We asked Ibn Abbas about
sitting on one's buttocks (in prayer). (ala alqad mein) He said: It is sunnah.
We said to him: We find it a sort of cruelty to the foot. Ibn 'Abbas said: It
is the sunnah of your Apostle (ﷺ). (Explaining
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 38)
Explaining Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 31-38
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