The Meaning of His Saying: “His Hands Before His Knees, and the Knees of the Camel”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: In the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), “his hands before his knees,” some people say that the Arabs say that the knees of the camel are in its front part.
Answer:
No, that is a mistake. No one among the experts of the Arabic language has said that the knees are in the hands, neither of animals nor of humans.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: In the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), “his hands before his knees,” some people say that the Arabs say that the knees of the camel are in its front part.
Answer:
No, that is a mistake. No one among the experts of the Arabic language has said that the knees are in the hands, neither of animals nor of humans.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب هيئات السجود وكيف الهوي إليه — islamhouse.com (52:40)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.