The Interpretation of the Devil's Crouch and the Types of Crouching

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: It is reported in some hadiths that the devil's crouch is to place the tops of his feet on the ground and point his toes backward.

The Shaykh:
Hmm?

The questioner:
It is reported in some hadiths that the devil's crouch is to place the tops of his feet on the ground and point his toes backward.

The Shaykh:
Backward? How does he point them backward? No, it is not reported that the devil's crouch is that he places the tops of his feet on the ground and sits on their soles. This is the interpretation of "placing the tops of his feet on the ground and sitting on the soles of his feet." This was interpreted as the crouch.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, and only.

The Shaykh:
And the second interpretation you heard is the crouch of the dog, the crouching of the dog. Yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

The Shaykh:
As for the prescribed crouch in prayer, which Ibn 'Abbas and others used to perform, the crouch in prayer, and that it is a recommended practice (sunnah), is to spread the toes of his feet and raise his heels above and sit on his heels. He sits on his heels. This is a recommended practice (sunnah) if he does it sometimes. And he is not to be criticized for it. Yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Do you recite the Basmala?

The Shaykh:
So the crouch has types. The crouch that is a recommended practice (sunnah), as mentioned, as some of the Companions used to do, is to place the soles of the toes of his feet on the ground and raise his heels and sit on them. This is one. The second is to place the tops of his feet on the ground and sit on their soles. The third is the crouch of the dog, which is to sit on his buttocks and raise his legs and lean on his hands on the ground. Yes.