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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the recommended practice when lowering oneself into prostration in prayer?

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After this, we move on to a message received by the program from Yemen -Sana'a- sent by the listener Sadiq Nu'man. He asks and says: When I prostrate, which do I place first: the hands or the knees?
Answer: It is better to place the knees first. You place the knees, then the hands, then the forehead and nose. This is the Sunnah. You start with the knees because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
He forbade prostrating in the manner of a camelنهى عن البروك كما يبرك البعير
. The camel starts with its hands, so you start with your knees because they are with your legs. And in another hadith:
I saw that the Prophet (ﷺ) placed his knees (on the ground) before placing his hands when he prostrated himselfكان النبي ﷺ إذا سجد وضع ركبتيه قبل يديه
Sunan Abi Dawud 838Da'if (Al-Albani)
, which is a good hadith with no harm in it, and it agrees with the hadiths regarding prostrating like a camel.
The point is that the Sunnah and the prescribed practice is to start with the legs: the knees, then your hands, then your forehead and nose. And when rising, you raise your head, then your hands, then your knees. This is the most correct view. Yes.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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