The discussion regarding prostration, its characteristics, what is said in it, and how one descends into it.

The Shaykh : Then he descends into prostration on his two knees, then his hands, then his forehead and nose, based on the statement of Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him and him): "I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: These are seven limbs upon which prostration is obligatory, because Allah commanded us to do so, based on the statement of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): And prostration is performed on the knees first, then on the palms, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade a man to prostrate on his palms, where he said: "When one of you prostrates, let him not kneel down as a camel kneels down, but let him place his hands before his knees." This is the wording of the hadith, but we will discuss it.
The first phrase: The prohibition here is regarding the manner of prostration, because he used the letter "kaf" which indicates comparison, and the prohibition here is not regarding the limb upon which one prostrates. If the prohibition here were regarding the limb upon which one prostrates, he would have said: "Let him not kneel down on what the camel kneels down on." In that case, we would say: Do not kneel down on the knees, because the camel kneels down on its knees. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say "Do not kneel down on what it kneels down on," but rather he said "Do not kneel down as it kneels down." So the prohibition is regarding the manner and characteristic, not the limb upon which one prostrates. For this reason, Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) affirmed in *Zad al-Ma'ad* that the end of the hadith is inverted in the narrator's version. The end of the hadith is: "And let him place his hands before his knees." He said that the correct version is "And let him place his knees before his hands," because if he placed his hands before his knees, he would kneel down as the camel kneels down. Indeed, when a camel kneels down, it brings its hands forward, and whoever has observed a camel when it kneels down will understand this. So at that point, we say the correct version, if we want the end of the hadith to match its beginning, is what? Some of the brothers have authored a treatise titled: "Fath al-Ma'bud fi Wad' al-Rukbatayn qabla al-Yadayn fi al-Sujud" (The Opening of the Worshipped Regarding Placing the Knees Before the Hands in Prostration), and he excelled in it and provided benefit. And on this basis, the Sunnah that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded in prostration is for a person to place his knees before his hands. And how does one place the hands in prostration? One places the hands in prostration extended on the ground, with the fingers together. O my brothers.