What is the ruling on placing the hand on the hip during prayer?

The questioner : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade placing the hand on the hip during prayer.

The questioner : Placing the hand on the hip, placing the hand on the hip.

The Shaykh : It is a point, my master.
The student brothers are laughing.

The questioner : The one who places his hand on his hip during prayer, does his prayer become invalid if he does it intentionally?

The Shaykh : What is the text of the hadith?

The questioner : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade placing the hand on the hip during prayer.

The Shaykh : If the hadith forbade praying while placing the hand on the hip, the prayer would be invalid. But since the hadith forbade placing the hand on the hip or adopting that posture during prayer, it does not indicate that the prayer is invalid in itself; rather, it indicates that placing the hand on the hip during prayer is forbidden. Do you understand?

The questioner : Yes, exactly like that, Professor.

The Shaykh : No, let it be like that later.
Al-Halabi : In the same example, Professor, I think I heard you once and read it in Ibn Rajab's *Jami' al-'Ulum wa al-Hikam*, where he mentions that if the prohibition is specific to the prayer and permissible outside of it, and the person performing the prayer does it inside it, the prayer is invalidated by it. But if the prohibition is general, both outside and inside the prayer, then it does not invalidate the prayer. Now, this question is about placing the hand on the hip. Placing the hand on the hip outside of prayer is a permissible matter. And now, as long as the prohibition is specific to the prayer, do we not take from this statement that this prayer is invalid according to this statement, regardless of its authenticity or...?

The Shaykh : Yes, no. If Ibn Rajab's statement is authentic, it indicates that placing the hand on the hip invalidates the prayer.
Al-Halabi : Yes, exactly.

The Shaykh : It indicates that placing the hand on the hip invalidates the prayer. But what I am mentioning regarding the detail is what I mentioned earlier, meaning that if the prohibition is against doing the act in the prayer, it means that this act is the specific target of the prohibition. But if the prohibition is against the prayer due to the presence of a certain thing, that is what indicates invalidity.
Al-Halabi : I don't know, brother Salim.
Salim: O Shaykh, there is a warning in the *Sajid* text that the brother Ali mentioned, which is that if the prohibition is specific to the act of worship, it invalidates it, but if the prohibition is not specific to the act of worship, it does not invalidate it. In this formulation, it is found in Ibn Rajab's *Jami' al-'Ulum wa al-Hikam*.

The Shaykh : By Allah, it needs to be reviewed...
Salim: In the *Sajid* warning, and you have read it more than once in the lessons.

The Shaykh : It might be this.