Shaking Hands with the Congregation After Prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: After the completion of the congregational prayer, what is the ruling on a worshipper shaking hands with the person immediately to his right and the person immediately to his left?
Answer:
If he has not met him before, he may greet him, and there is nothing wrong with that. But if he has met him before, he should not do this, because it becomes a bid'ah (religious innovation); people will think it is obligatory for every worshipper. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: After the completion of the congregational prayer, what is the ruling on a worshipper shaking hands with the person immediately to his right and the person immediately to his left?
Answer:
If he has not met him before, he may greet him, and there is nothing wrong with that. But if he has met him before, he should not do this, because it becomes a bid'ah (religious innovation); people will think it is obligatory for every worshipper. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وكذلك كان أساطينهم ومتقدموهم العارفون فيهم معظمين للرسل والشرائع — islamhouse.com (1:14:32)
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