What is the degree of authenticity of the hadith regarding moving the finger between the two prostrations?
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In my mind, Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated it from the route of 'Abd al-Razzaq, who said: Sufyan narrated to us, who said: 'Asim ibn Kulayb narrated to us from his father from Wa'il ibn Hujr, and he mentioned part of the description of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer. Then he mentioned the first prostration, and when he raised his head sitting between the two prostrations, he mentioned the gesture, and then prostrated. So, if one looks at this chain of narration in isolation from the other narrations from 'Asim ibn Kulayb, one might say that its chain is authentic. However, when a researcher traces all the routes from 'Asim ibn Kulayb, we find a significant difference between those routes from 'Asim, in that they all agreed on mentioning the gesture in the tashahhud without mentioning the gesture between the two prostrations. Meanwhile, this narration that Imam Ahmad narrated from 'Abd al-Razzaq from Sufyan from 'Asim mentions the gesture between the two prostrations without mentioning the gesture in the tashahhud. This is the contradiction, and this is the anomaly. It may fall under the category of inverted hadith, because the matter was inverted upon him; instead of mentioning the gesture in the tashahhud, he mentioned it between the two prostrations. Therefore, the reality is that the matter is as the scholars of hadith say: the most precise of the sciences of hadith is knowing the defects of chains of narration. This hadith can be attached to the first hadith, with a significant difference between their implications. The first is not explicit, as we mentioned earlier, regarding the position after raising the head from the bowing, whereas this second one is explicit regarding the gesture between the two prostrations. So, that one can be rejected if someone insists on using it as evidence for the position; it can be rejected by the contradiction and the anomaly, because the position was not mentioned in the first standing, just as this other narrator did when he mentioned the gesture between the two prostrations and did not mention it in the tashahhud. Yes, present what you have, please.
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