What is the original practice in standing in prayer: letting the hands hang down or placing them on the chest after rising from bowing, and is there evidence for letting them hang down?
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The questioner: Letting the hands hang down, letting the hands hang down in prayer!
The Shaykh: Remember the first standing and take the answer to your question from the first standing, and try your luck, finish your speech and you will return to this brief statement! What?
The questioner: Meaning, letting the hands hang down is not reported in?
Another questioner: Wait a moment, Abu Faris, Abu Faris!
The Shaykh: What is he recording on you, it is clear your companion is clear, what is between you and him?
The questioner: No, okay, okay, okay.
Another questioner: Yes, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to let his hands hang down in prayer!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Meaning, and people let their hands hang down in prayer, what do you think, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh: It is a religious innovation!
The questioner: How is that, O Shaykh?
Another questioner: What is the evidence, why are you afraid? Tell him: What is the evidence?
The questioner: I tell him: It is not reported, I am the one speaking, I tell him: It is not reported, and people do it, the Shaykh says: It is a religious innovation.
The Shaykh: It is a religious innovation!
The questioner: You tell him: What is the evidence?
The Shaykh: Letting the hands hang down is a religious innovation!
The questioner: Letting the hands hang down is a religious innovation?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Okay, what is the evidence for it being an innovation?
The Shaykh: That it is contrary to the Sunnah!
The questioner: All right.
The Shaykh: What then?
The questioner: So where do they put their hands?
The Shaykh: Where the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) put them!
The questioner: (peace and blessings be upon him), after rising from bowing, meaning, is it reported that he put them there!
The Shaykh: You did not say just now in your question after rising?
The questioner: Yes, this is what I want to say, after rising!
The Shaykh: Yes, correct, sleep well.
The questioner: And this is what the Shaykh wants to catch you on!
The Shaykh : Sleep well.
The questioner: Hehehehe.
The Shaykh: So what is your question now?
The questioner: It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his hands on his side after rising from bowing!
The Shaykh: Do you mean letting them hang down?
The questioner: Letting them hang down.
The Shaykh: Okay, I answered you beforehand, if it was not reported that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his hands in the first standing, what would you do?
The questioner: I would let them hang down.
The Shaykh: That is the argument against you!
The questioner: Ah, but it was reported, right?
Another questioner: But letting them hang down was reported?!
The Shaykh: No, placing them was reported.
The questioner: No, this is after bowing, after rising from bowing.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The questioner: Nothing was reported!
The Shaykh: Let him be now, he is as if he is walking on the right path, did you understand the answer?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner: It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) meant letting his hands hang down, if it was not reported that he placed his hands here.
The Shaykh: Your companion confused you, I do not blame you.
The questioner: What was reported is that he placed his hands.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And it was not reported that he let his hands hang down.
The Shaykh: Repeat your question and the answer to it so that it is firmly established in your mind!
The questioner: Repeat the question, O Shaykh, please?
The Shaykh: Hahaha, did you see, may Allah be pleased with my wife, O people, hahahaha, do you understand, the group who were riding with us in the car this morning, she is almost illiterate, do you know her, but Allah blessed her.
The questioner : Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh: She has now become a female mufti, hahaha, so sometimes there is a discussion between me and her, I tell her: Repeat the question, to see what she says to me: I can repeat the question, okay, repeat your speech? She also does not want to repeat it, hahahaha.
The questioner: Hehehe.
The Shaykh: Hehehe.
The questioner: She is excused if the brother!!
The Shaykh: It is like that, hahahaha.
The questioner: And she takes revenge for me, O Shaykh, please, one just rides a question.
Another questioner: We have gone through this experience and we stopped repeating it!
The Shaykh: Hahahaha, was your question what is the ruling on letting the hands hang down? Pay attention now, I am going to repeat from the beginning of the topic, I will reveal some of the mistakes that passed so that we do not fall into something like them, was your question what is the ruling on letting the hands hang down? I told you: It is a religious innovation, then you paid attention and said: Letting the hands hang down.
The questioner: After rising from bowing.
The Shaykh: After rising, I said at first: I did not say!!, so you corrected it and we went with you, so my answer after you corrected your question: What would you do, O Abu Faris, if it was not established in the Sunnah that placing the hands is done in the first standing? I said: I would let them hang down, and this is our answer, because we do not have a hadith that establishes placing the hands in the second standing, so we let them hang down as if we did not have a Sunnah for placing the hands in the first standing, but they differed, hadiths came regarding placing the hands in the first standing, so we left letting them hang down, and we remained with letting them hang down in the second standing, because no hadiths came. Is that not so?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: And you, if Allah wills, that is it, if Allah wills?
The questioner: The other issue remains!
The Shaykh : Which one?
The questioner: And we do not take a break?
Another questioner: I seeAbu Layla: You are coming down in a hurry!
The Shaykh: Hahahaha, yes, it is clear, hahahaha.
The questioner: Give Abu Faris a break and give Abu Ayyub one, and then we will return to it!
Another questioner: No, let us leave it behind us, O Abu Abdullah!
The questioner: You want to start with it, hahahaha.
Another questioner: Do you know Abu Ayyub's question!
The questioner: Did he not ask about the proxy Hajj?!
Another questioner: I will answer you about the proxy Hajj, then he will return to Abu Ayyub!
The questioner: My question has no discussion, praise be to Allah, just a question and a fatwa!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The Shaykh: Remember the first standing and take the answer to your question from the first standing, and try your luck, finish your speech and you will return to this brief statement! What?
The questioner: Meaning, letting the hands hang down is not reported in?
Another questioner: Wait a moment, Abu Faris, Abu Faris!
The Shaykh: What is he recording on you, it is clear your companion is clear, what is between you and him?
The questioner: No, okay, okay, okay.
Another questioner: Yes, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to let his hands hang down in prayer!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Meaning, and people let their hands hang down in prayer, what do you think, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh: It is a religious innovation!
The questioner: How is that, O Shaykh?
Another questioner: What is the evidence, why are you afraid? Tell him: What is the evidence?
The questioner: I tell him: It is not reported, I am the one speaking, I tell him: It is not reported, and people do it, the Shaykh says: It is a religious innovation.
The Shaykh: It is a religious innovation!
The questioner: You tell him: What is the evidence?
The Shaykh: Letting the hands hang down is a religious innovation!
The questioner: Letting the hands hang down is a religious innovation?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Okay, what is the evidence for it being an innovation?
The Shaykh: That it is contrary to the Sunnah!
The questioner: All right.
The Shaykh: What then?
The questioner: So where do they put their hands?
The Shaykh: Where the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) put them!
The questioner: (peace and blessings be upon him), after rising from bowing, meaning, is it reported that he put them there!
The Shaykh: You did not say just now in your question after rising?
The questioner: Yes, this is what I want to say, after rising!
The Shaykh: Yes, correct, sleep well.
The questioner: And this is what the Shaykh wants to catch you on!
The Shaykh : Sleep well.
The questioner: Hehehehe.
The Shaykh: So what is your question now?
The questioner: It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his hands on his side after rising from bowing!
The Shaykh: Do you mean letting them hang down?
The questioner: Letting them hang down.
The Shaykh: Okay, I answered you beforehand, if it was not reported that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his hands in the first standing, what would you do?
The questioner: I would let them hang down.
The Shaykh: That is the argument against you!
The questioner: Ah, but it was reported, right?
Another questioner: But letting them hang down was reported?!
The Shaykh: No, placing them was reported.
The questioner: No, this is after bowing, after rising from bowing.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The questioner: Nothing was reported!
The Shaykh: Let him be now, he is as if he is walking on the right path, did you understand the answer?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner: It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) meant letting his hands hang down, if it was not reported that he placed his hands here.
The Shaykh: Your companion confused you, I do not blame you.
The questioner: What was reported is that he placed his hands.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And it was not reported that he let his hands hang down.
The Shaykh: Repeat your question and the answer to it so that it is firmly established in your mind!
The questioner: Repeat the question, O Shaykh, please?
The Shaykh: Hahaha, did you see, may Allah be pleased with my wife, O people, hahahaha, do you understand, the group who were riding with us in the car this morning, she is almost illiterate, do you know her, but Allah blessed her.
The questioner : Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh: She has now become a female mufti, hahaha, so sometimes there is a discussion between me and her, I tell her: Repeat the question, to see what she says to me: I can repeat the question, okay, repeat your speech? She also does not want to repeat it, hahahaha.
The questioner: Hehehe.
The Shaykh: Hehehe.
The questioner: She is excused if the brother!!
The Shaykh: It is like that, hahahaha.
The questioner: And she takes revenge for me, O Shaykh, please, one just rides a question.
Another questioner: We have gone through this experience and we stopped repeating it!
The Shaykh: Hahahaha, was your question what is the ruling on letting the hands hang down? Pay attention now, I am going to repeat from the beginning of the topic, I will reveal some of the mistakes that passed so that we do not fall into something like them, was your question what is the ruling on letting the hands hang down? I told you: It is a religious innovation, then you paid attention and said: Letting the hands hang down.
The questioner: After rising from bowing.
The Shaykh: After rising, I said at first: I did not say!!, so you corrected it and we went with you, so my answer after you corrected your question: What would you do, O Abu Faris, if it was not established in the Sunnah that placing the hands is done in the first standing? I said: I would let them hang down, and this is our answer, because we do not have a hadith that establishes placing the hands in the second standing, so we let them hang down as if we did not have a Sunnah for placing the hands in the first standing, but they differed, hadiths came regarding placing the hands in the first standing, so we left letting them hang down, and we remained with letting them hang down in the second standing, because no hadiths came. Is that not so?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: And you, if Allah wills, that is it, if Allah wills?
The questioner: The other issue remains!
The Shaykh : Which one?
The questioner: And we do not take a break?
Another questioner: I seeAbu Layla: You are coming down in a hurry!
The Shaykh: Hahahaha, yes, it is clear, hahahaha.
The questioner: Give Abu Faris a break and give Abu Ayyub one, and then we will return to it!
Another questioner: No, let us leave it behind us, O Abu Abdullah!
The questioner: You want to start with it, hahahaha.
Another questioner: Do you know Abu Ayyub's question!
The questioner: Did he not ask about the proxy Hajj?!
Another questioner: I will answer you about the proxy Hajj, then he will return to Abu Ayyub!
The questioner: My question has no discussion, praise be to Allah, just a question and a fatwa!
The Shaykh: Yes.
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