The ruling on placing the knees before the hands during prostration
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is much disagreement among the scholars regarding what the one praying places first when he intends to prostrate: does he place his knees or his hands?
Answer:
There is much disagreement, as you say. The majority hold that the Sunnah, the correct Sunnah, is to place the knees before the hands; this is the correct Sunnah. The hadith was reversed by some of them, so it became that he places his hands before his knees. This is a reversal, as Ibn al-Qayyim says in *Zad al-Ma'ad*, unless one needs to do so, such as an elderly person or a sick person who needs to place his hands; in that case, he has a need. As for the strong person, the Sunnah is for him to place his knees before his hands. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is much disagreement among the scholars regarding what the one praying places first when he intends to prostrate: does he place his knees or his hands?
Answer:
There is much disagreement, as you say. The majority hold that the Sunnah, the correct Sunnah, is to place the knees before the hands; this is the correct Sunnah. The hadith was reversed by some of them, so it became that he places his hands before his knees. This is a reversal, as Ibn al-Qayyim says in *Zad al-Ma'ad*, unless one needs to do so, such as an elderly person or a sick person who needs to place his hands; in that case, he has a need. As for the strong person, the Sunnah is for him to place his knees before his hands. Yes.
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