The ruling on shaking hands after performing the greeting of the mosque
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Question:
If you pray the greeting of the mosque and greet the people on your right and left, is there any harm in that?
Answer:
The best is to shake hands with them; the best is to shake hands with the one on your right and the one on your left.
Q: Is there any harm in it?
The Shaykh: No, it is a recommended practice (sunnah).
Q: Some people disapprove, saying that as long as he is reciting the Qur'an, leave him alone and do not greet him?
The Shaykh: No, that is wrong. The recommended practice (sunnah) is that when a Muslim meets his brothers, even in the row, he should greet them and shake their hands.
Q: One of the callers to Islam said: No, do not greet them?
The Shaykh: Wrong, that is wrong, that is ignorance.
If you pray the greeting of the mosque and greet the people on your right and left, is there any harm in that?
Answer:
The best is to shake hands with them; the best is to shake hands with the one on your right and the one on your left.
Q: Is there any harm in it?
The Shaykh: No, it is a recommended practice (sunnah).
Q: Some people disapprove, saying that as long as he is reciting the Qur'an, leave him alone and do not greet him?
The Shaykh: No, that is wrong. The recommended practice (sunnah) is that when a Muslim meets his brothers, even in the row, he should greet them and shake their hands.
Q: One of the callers to Islam said: No, do not greet them?
The Shaykh: Wrong, that is wrong, that is ignorance.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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