Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Hands in Salah (Yes again)












The issue is that there is no completely Saheeh Hadeeth as to where to put your hands in Salah, rather there are different levels of Weakness or problems concerning the narrations. With that being said, there is the hadeeth that Ibn Khuzaimah and Al-Albaani made Saheeh, which a lot of the modern day scholars say is the strongest of all of them The hadeeth concerning placing your hands below the naval comes from Abi Dawood, and it's a narration of Ali (Radhi Allahu Anhu.) "From the Sunnah of prayer is to put the palm of the hand on the other hand beneath the naval."-reported by Ahmad in al-musnad 110/1, Abu Dawood 480/1, Ibn abi shayba 391/1, Ad-daaruqutni 286/1, Ibn Abdul Barr in At-Tamheed 77/20, and Al-Bayhaqi in Ma'rifa as-sunnah wa al-athaar, and Saaqa Al-Majd in "Al-muntaqa" However, like I said it has weakness. In any regard, the place of the hands in Salah is an issue of Sunnah. Which means that if left it will not make the Salah invalid.

So even if one were to pray with the hands to ones side, his Salah would still be valid according to the Madhab. The Madhab is open concerning this issue, and the opinion of Ibn Qudaama is basically that a person has the personal ability to choose were he wants to place his hands, either below his naval, about his naval or right at the edge of the chest. Sheikh, Bakr Abu Zayd, mentions that even though "on the chest" has stronger evidence, it does not mean one puts them all the way up on their chest, where it reaches the throat.

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