Chairs prepared for prayer with a place for prostration
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: They are currently distributing chairs on which people pray, and they have a place on which the worshipper prostrates while sitting.
The Shaykh:
No, one does not prostrate on anything. A sick man used to prostrate on a cushion, so the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) took it and threw it away, and said: PraySunan Abi Dawud 952Sahih (Al-Albani). He indicates with his head for the bowing and the prostration, and he makes his prostration lower than his bowing. If he does not prostrate on the ground or a bed, he should not go to the trouble of raising something to prostrate on; that is an unnecessary effort. Indicating is sufficient. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
These people do not want the chairs to increase in value. Yes, they sell them to increase their value. So they placed this impermissible thing. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: They are currently distributing chairs on which people pray, and they have a place on which the worshipper prostrates while sitting.
The Shaykh:
No, one does not prostrate on anything. A sick man used to prostrate on a cushion, so the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) took it and threw it away, and said: Pray
in standing condition; if you are unable to do so, then in sitting condition: if you are then at your side
قائما فإن لم تستطع، فقاعدا فإن لم تستطع فعلى جنبThe questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
These people do not want the chairs to increase in value. Yes, they sell them to increase their value. So they placed this impermissible thing. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء في قيام الليل — islamhouse.com (1:05:25)
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