Is pointing with the index finger in the tashahhud considered anomalous?
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The questioner : The second question: How did you prefer the hadith regarding the movement, accepting the addition from the narrator, and not preferring that it is anomalous, despite the many who contradict the addition?
The Shaykh : They are not the ones who contradict. Those who say that are the ones who contradict.
The questioner : He saysThe Shaykh : Of course, under this heading.
The Shaykh : Those whom the speaker or transmitter reported as having contradicted the one who explicitly mentioned the movement—contradiction in this issue would only occur if they said he did not move it, and the hadith were the same. In that case, one would say, "By Allah, the trustworthy narrators contradicted him." But there is no such contradiction in this hadith where the trustworthy narrator reported the movement. There is only a word that is not explicit about the movement, which is that he pointed.
The Shaykh : They are not the ones who contradict. Those who say that are the ones who contradict.
The questioner : He saysThe Shaykh : Of course, under this heading.
The Shaykh : Those whom the speaker or transmitter reported as having contradicted the one who explicitly mentioned the movement—contradiction in this issue would only occur if they said he did not move it, and the hadith were the same. In that case, one would say, "By Allah, the trustworthy narrators contradicted him." But there is no such contradiction in this hadith where the trustworthy narrator reported the movement. There is only a word that is not explicit about the movement, which is that he pointed.
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