Issue 5: Placing one hand over the other in Standing posture
Issue 5: Placing one hand over the other in Standing posture
Book:
The Book of Prayer - كتاب الصلاة.
Chapter:
The Paryer of an Individual (Resident, Secure, Good Health)
Section:
The Acts that constitute the elements (Arkan)
Topic/Issue:
1405 - Issue 5: Placing one hand over the other in Standing posture --
Opinions:
Opinion From
Opinion
Explanation
Imam Malik
It is not permitted in the obligatory prayers. (permitted it in supererogatory prayers.)
It is necessary to adopt the traditions in
which this addition has not been transmitted as these are more in number, and
also because it (this practice) is not compatible with the acts of prayer for it
belongs to the category of seeking support; therefore, Imam Malik permitted it in
supererogatory and not in obligatory prayers. It appears that it depicts a
posture of humility, which is appropriate for it.
Imam Shafi'i, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Ahmad
It is Sunnah (recommended)
Confirmed traditions have been reported in which the description of the
Prophet's prayer have been transmitted, but it has not been transmitted that he
used to place his right hand over his left during prayer, while it has also been
related that the people were commanded to do this. This has been related in
the description of the prayer of the Prophet (God's peace and blessings be
upon him) in the tradition of Abu Humayd. A group of jurists, therefore, held
that the traditions in which this is established imply an addition over those in
which this addition has not been transmitted, and an addition has to be
accepted.