Is it true that clapping is specific to women in prayer, while in other contexts it is permissible for men?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I work as a doctor, and when I attend a medical conference, the men in the audience clap for the speaker. If I tell them that clapping is for women only, they say that this ruling is limited to prayer. Is this statement correct?

Answer:
No, it is not correct. Men do not clap, neither in prayer nor in other contexts. Clapping is for women, clapping is for women, and not for men, in prayer and in other contexts. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that it involves imitating the disbelievers. This is one of the customs of the disbelievers. We did not know it, and the Muslims did not know clapping by men until it came to us from the customs and traditions of the disbelievers in their gatherings and assemblies. Clapping is also one of the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. The clapping is the clapping, and the clapping is the approval.
This is from the actions of the disbelievers. And now, Glory be to Allah, they clap and whistle. They put them in the gatherings, they clap and whistle, like the actions of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.