Conditions for Kissing a Scholar's Hand.

The questioner : I didn't notice just now, or rather, I am telling you...The Shaykh : And I told him regarding the question, if it is found in the books, he says...Abu Layla : O our Shaykh, it is found in some books that kissing a scholar's hand is permissible?

The Shaykh : Yes, I ask him where he took it from?

The questioner : He, O our Shaykh, yes...

The Shaykh : Yes, that is enough, may Allah guide you.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Let your weapon be sharp... Did you take it?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner : ... some books.

The Shaykh : As they sayThe Shaykh : ... you took it and finished.

The questioner : ... O our Shaykh, the matter is not...

Another questioner : The detail, the detail, O our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Still, still, your old friend is not satisfied, not satisfied!
We, my brother, do not deny the permissibility of kissing a scholar's hand for his knowledge, subject to conditions, one of which is not to make it a constant habit, always, every time we meet this scholar or that one, we kiss his hand. Why do we say it is permissible? And why do we say not to make it a constant habit? We say it is permissible because kissing the hand occurred from some of the Companions to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and it did not occur from the majority of the Companions.
So what occurred regarding kissing the hand indicates permissibility, and what did not occur in most cases indicates that it is not a constant obligation. Then, this permissible kissing, and one of its conditions is to minimize it and not to persist in it, it should also not be accompanied by matters that go against the Sunnah, such as not making the kissing take the place of shaking hands, as is the case with many of the Shaykhs, whether they are from the jurists or those who study jurisprudence, or whether they are from the Sufis; their affair with their followers is that they established kissing the hand in place of shaking hands. This is contrary to the Sunnah, let alone that it is not permissible for what resembles prostration to be accompanied by the kissing. What resembles prostration is done by bending, and among that is also that one does this... And a few days ago, one of the small children kissed my hand, and I think his father was present.

The questioner : Anas...

The Shaykh : You yourself?

The questioner : No, the second Anas, Anas.

The Shaykh : Anas? Ah.
So he did this... So we forbade him from this. Therefore, if these conditions are met, then the kissing is permissible. This is regarding the permissibility. But we do not like this and we do not approve of it for ourselves. However, love and longing sometimes overcome another love. So the one who loves, for example...The Shaykh : In many cases, he does not like what he likes.The Shaykh : Perhaps this speech is not very clear?

The questioner : It needs, it needs clarification.

The Shaykh : It needs clarification. I say that in many cases, some of the brothers and companions, out of love for...The Shaykh : ...kiss his hand, and they know that he does not like his hand to be kissed. So their love for the Shaykh overcomes their not liking what he likes.The Shaykh : This is a philosophy, but a real philosophy. And our brother Abu Ahmad is of the type that... so it has been a long time, praise be to Allah, he has not seen...The Shaykh : How long has it been for you, a month or a week or neither?

The questioner : It means three days, O our Shaykh, three days and nights, yes...

Another questioner : That is a lot for...Abu Layla .

The Shaykh : So longing overcame him, meaning.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : But the important thing is that he is not blamed for it, because he did what is permissible for him. This is an explanation of what needed to be explained.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.