What is the ruling on placing the hands on the chest after rising from the bowing?

The questioner : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh! I read in a book by one of the scholars titled "How the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) Prayed" that placing the hands on the chest after rising from the bowing is a religious innovation (bid'ah). I ask for clarification of this. I ask for clarification with the evidence indicating the placement of the hands on the chest before the bowing, and may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : Yes, first, I hesitate to label someone who opposes the Sunnah in a matter where independent legal reasoning (ijtihad) is permissible as an innovator.
Those who place their hands on their chests after rising from the bowing base this statement on a text and a hadith. So for us to say that this is an innovator because he opposed our independent legal reasoning is a heavy burden for a person, and it is not befitting for a person to use the word "bid'ah," because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said regarding bid'ah: If we describe this action as bid'ah, we describe its doer as an innovator. If we describe it as bid'ah, we describe it as misguidance. If we describe it as misguidance, we describe its doer as misguided. And there is no harm in describing one who opposes the truth as misguided. This is Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) when a man came to him saying to him regarding a daughter, a daughter of a son, and a sister, to divide the money. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) divided it among these three. He said to the daughter: half, and what remains is for the sister. And you are occupied.

Another questioner : The daughter of the half, the daughter of the sixth, and the sister of the remainder.

The Shaykh : Okay, wait. When Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) issued this ruling, he said to the questioner: Go to Ibn Mas'ud, and he will agree with me. So he went to Ibn Mas'ud and informed him of Abu Musa's ruling and that he said he would agree with him. Ibn Mas'ud said: I have meaning, if I agree, I will say in it what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . So I say that describing the one who places his hand on his chest after the bowing as an innovator and his action as bid'ah is a heavy burden for a person, and it is not befitting for a person to describe his brothers with this. The correct view is that placing the right hand on the left hand after rising from the bowing is the Sunnah. The correct view is that it is the Sunnah.
And the evidence for this is what is established in Sahih al-Bukhari from Sahl ibn Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: . The aspect of indication from the hadith is by induction and tracking, because we ask: Where is the hand placed? During prostration? On the ground. And he said: falling down. And during sitting, on the thighs. What remains? What remains is the state of standing before the bowing or after the bowing, which falls under his statement (may Allah be pleased with him): . So the hadith indicates that the right hand is placed on the left hand in the prayer, in the standing before the bowing and after the bowing. And this is the truth indicated by the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). So the answer to this question consists of two points. The first point is that it is not befitting for us to be lenient in applying the term bid'ah to an action in which there is room for independent legal reasoning. The second is that the correct view is that it is Sunnah and not bid'ah, by the evidence of the hadith we referred to, which is the hadith of Sahl ibn Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him).

The presenter : Yes.