The ruling on placing the right hand over the left after bowing
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He also asks: Is placing the right hand over the left on the chest after rising from bowing a recommended practice (sunnah) or a religious innovation (bid'ah)? And what is the evidence?
Answer: Placing the hands on the chest before and after bowing is a recommended practice (sunnah). The evidence for this is: and he used to order this. It is established in the authentic hadith of Wail that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sunan an-Nasa'i 889Sahih (Darussalam) and it came in other narrations: This is the recommended practice. It also came in a narration from Wail ibn Hujr in Ibn Khuzaymah: and likewise in Ahmad from the hadith of Qabisah ibn Hulb al-Tai from his father: and Wail also said: This indicates that in his standing, he places them on his chest, whether the standing is before bowing or after bowing. Likewise, it came from the hadith of Tawus, as a mursal report from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), with a good chain: Sunan ad-Daraqutni 3:196 This is the most authentic of what has been said on this matter: placing them on the chest before and after bowing.
As for what appeared in the treatise of some of our brothers who wrote about the prayer of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), where he claimed that placing them on the chest after bowing is a religious innovation (bid'ah), that is an error, a mistake by the one who said it. It should not be relied upon, and it should not prevent one from benefiting from his books and the benefits contained in them. But this error—everyone makes mistakes. So the statement of the one who wrote about the description of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer that placing them on the chest after bowing is a bid'ah is a mistake. It is the statement of our brother in Allah, the Shaykh: Nasir al-Din al-Albani. He made a mistake in this, and he is a great and beneficial scholar, and his books are beneficial, but everyone makes mistakes, and he has a few errors. We ask Allah to guide him to return from them. Yes.
Answer: Placing the hands on the chest before and after bowing is a recommended practice (sunnah). The evidence for this is:
That the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to place his right hand over his left in prayer
أن النبي ﷺ: كان يضع يده اليمنى على اليسرى في الصلاةhe placed his right hand over his left hand
كان يضع يده اليمنى على كفه اليسرىand the wrist and the forearm
والرسغ والساعدThat he placed them on his chest
أنه يضعهما على صدرهThat the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to place his hands on his chest while he was standing in prayer
أن النبي ﷺ كان يضع يديه على صدره حال كونه قائمًا في الصلاةThe Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to place his right hand over his left when he was standing in prayer
كان النبي ﷺ إذا كان قائمًا في الصلاة وضع يمينه على شمالهPlacing the right hand over the left on the chest
وضع اليمين على الشمال على الصدرAs for what appeared in the treatise of some of our brothers who wrote about the prayer of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), where he claimed that placing them on the chest after bowing is a religious innovation (bid'ah), that is an error, a mistake by the one who said it. It should not be relied upon, and it should not prevent one from benefiting from his books and the benefits contained in them. But this error—everyone makes mistakes. So the statement of the one who wrote about the description of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) prayer that placing them on the chest after bowing is a bid'ah is a mistake. It is the statement of our brother in Allah, the Shaykh: Nasir al-Din al-Albani. He made a mistake in this, and he is a great and beneficial scholar, and his books are beneficial, but everyone makes mistakes, and he has a few errors. We ask Allah to guide him to return from them. Yes.
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