What is the ruling on placing the right hand over the left hand in prayer?

The questioner : If the questioner says it, I will tell you.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : I said that you see that the prayer of the one who places his right hand over his left arm is a sunnah (recommended practice), but the moment the hadith says, "The people were commanded to do so," the end of the hadith. And the command, according to the specialists in legal theory, implies obligation. Yes, unless another text is reported that reduces it to recommendation. So what is your comment on these issues?

The Shaykh : Our comment on this issue is that I have not seen anyone from the scholars say that this is on the path of obligation. And the lack of consensus on obligation serves to divert the command from obligation, and there are many parallels for this, where commands come and the consensus of the scholars is that they are not for obligation, and this is sufficient to divert it from obligation to its absence, because the consensus of this Ummah (Muslim community) is a proof. Yes.