What is the manner of the recommended and disliked iq'a, and when is it performed?
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The questioner : What is the manner of the recommended and disliked iq'a, and when is it performed, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes. As for the well-known view among the Hanbalis (may Allah have mercy on them), all iq'a is disliked, whether it is done by standing the feet up and sitting on the heels, or by placing the buttocks on the ground and raising the legs, or by standing the feet up and sitting between them; that is, they dislike iq'a in all its forms.
Some scholars held that iq'a between the two prostrations is a recommended practice (sunnah), based on the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), in which a man asked him about iq'a and said, "We see it as a rough manner," and he replied, "It is the sunnah of your Prophet". However, the majority of scholars hold that it is not prescribed, and this is the truth, if Allah wills: that the iq'a mentioned, which is standing the feet up and sitting on the heels, is not prescribed, neither between the two prostrations nor in the tashahhuds. Perhaps Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) was preserving this sunnah, and then it was abrogated, just as 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), when he bowed, would place his hands together and put them between his thighs, and when he prayed with two people, he would lean on them, based on a previous sunnah that was then abrogated, but he did not know of its abrogation, I mean Ibn Mas'ud. So perhaps Ibn 'Abbas, regarding iq'a, was preserving that at first, and then it was abrogated.
The important point is that the correct view is that there is no iq'a in the prayer. Rather, one sits in the iftirash position, except for the final tashahhud in the three- and four-rak'ah prayers, in which case one sits in the tawarruk position. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you.
The Shaykh : Yes. As for the well-known view among the Hanbalis (may Allah have mercy on them), all iq'a is disliked, whether it is done by standing the feet up and sitting on the heels, or by placing the buttocks on the ground and raising the legs, or by standing the feet up and sitting between them; that is, they dislike iq'a in all its forms.
Some scholars held that iq'a between the two prostrations is a recommended practice (sunnah), based on the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), in which a man asked him about iq'a and said, "We see it as a rough manner," and he replied, "It is the sunnah of your Prophet". However, the majority of scholars hold that it is not prescribed, and this is the truth, if Allah wills: that the iq'a mentioned, which is standing the feet up and sitting on the heels, is not prescribed, neither between the two prostrations nor in the tashahhuds. Perhaps Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) was preserving this sunnah, and then it was abrogated, just as 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), when he bowed, would place his hands together and put them between his thighs, and when he prayed with two people, he would lean on them, based on a previous sunnah that was then abrogated, but he did not know of its abrogation, I mean Ibn Mas'ud. So perhaps Ibn 'Abbas, regarding iq'a, was preserving that at first, and then it was abrogated.
The important point is that the correct view is that there is no iq'a in the prayer. Rather, one sits in the iftirash position, except for the final tashahhud in the three- and four-rak'ah prayers, in which case one sits in the tawarruk position. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you.