What is the ruling on a woman’s hands being exposed during prayer?
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The questioner : Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. If you have some free time, I would like to ask the Shaykh several questions. The first question: Honorable Shaykh, in the first of the questions, is it about a woman’s hands being exposed during prayer?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets and the Imam of the Righteous, and upon his family and his Companions, and those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. Because the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) are divided on this: some hold that it is not permissible to expose the hands or the feet in prayer, whether in the obligatory prayer or the voluntary prayer. Others hold that it is permissible, but the precaution is for the woman to cover her hands and feet. However, we do not order her to repeat the prayer if she exposed her hands and feet.
The questioner : She says: Honorable Shaykh, sometimes the hands come out during the tarawih prayer, or when the woman is praying alone at night.
The Shaykh : The matter is as I told you: there is scholarly disagreement, and the precaution is to cover them.
The questioner : Okay, the second question.
The presenter : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets and the Imam of the Righteous, and upon his family and his Companions, and those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. Because the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) are divided on this: some hold that it is not permissible to expose the hands or the feet in prayer, whether in the obligatory prayer or the voluntary prayer. Others hold that it is permissible, but the precaution is for the woman to cover her hands and feet. However, we do not order her to repeat the prayer if she exposed her hands and feet.
The questioner : She says: Honorable Shaykh, sometimes the hands come out during the tarawih prayer, or when the woman is praying alone at night.
The Shaykh : The matter is as I told you: there is scholarly disagreement, and the precaution is to cover them.
The questioner : Okay, the second question.
The presenter : If Allah wills.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 513- ما حكم ظهور الكفين في الصلاة للمرأة /سؤال على الهاتف 📞 /ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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