Placing the knees or the hands first when going down into prostration

The questioner:
May Allah reward you. We ask Your Excellency to clarify the stronger position regarding placing the knees first or placing the hands first when going down into prostration?

The Shaykh:
The hadith is clear. The hadith is clear. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade prostrating like the prostration of a camel. And he is to place his knees before his hands. Because the camel does the opposite; it places its hands before its knees. So the first part of the camel to touch the ground is its front, and the last part to touch is its rear. And when it stands up, it is the opposite: the first part of the camel to rise is its front, and the last part to rise is its rear. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from imitating the camel, so we place our knees on the ground before our hands, contrary to the camel. This is clear from the hadith. Yes.

The questioner:
Its report.

The Shaykh:
The narration "and he is to place his hands before his knees"—Ibn al-Qayyim says this is inverted. This narration is inverted, and the correct one is "and he is to place his knees before his hands," to match the wording of the well-known hadith, and also to match the prostration of the camel. The prostration of the camel is a tangible matter; there is no argument or fallacy about it. And some of you are people of knowledge who know this. Yes.