Is ritual purity required for the prostration of gratitude and the prostration of recitation?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is ritual purity required for the prostration of gratitude, and likewise for the prostration of recitation?

Answer:
By Allah, this has not been transmitted. It has not been transmitted that it has the ruling of prayer; only the ruling of prayer has been transmitted. And the stronger position, and Allah knows best, is that ritual purity is not required for it. Yes. The one who recites the Qur'an from memory is permitted to recite while not in a state of ritual purity, so if he comes upon a prostration verse, he prostrates. Yes.