Shaking hands with the worshippers after the closing salam of the prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Some of the worshippers have the habit that after the taslim, he shakes hands with the person on his right and the person on his left. He says: Is this matter prescribed? And he says with that: May Allah accept it?
Answer:
Making this a constant practice is not befitting, but if he does it occasionally, or if he prayed next to someone he had not seen before, there is no harm in that. As for making it a constant practice, some people may think that it is one of the complements of the prayer and that it is always prescribed. Yes, but doing it occasionally is fine. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Some of the worshippers have the habit that after the taslim, he shakes hands with the person on his right and the person on his left. He says: Is this matter prescribed? And he says with that: May Allah accept it?
Answer:
Making this a constant practice is not befitting, but if he does it occasionally, or if he prayed next to someone he had not seen before, there is no harm in that. As for making it a constant practice, some people may think that it is one of the complements of the prayer and that it is always prescribed. Yes, but doing it occasionally is fine. Yes.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية [ صالح الفوزان ] [ 1438هـ ]، بداية من قوله : وقوله : { ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمؤمنين } — islamhouse.com (47:20)
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