Placing the Hands Below the Navel in Salah
Author: sunnibooks
Chapter on Placing the Hands
below the Navel And the Manner
of Placing
[Taken from "I'la al-Sunan"]
1. Narrated from Abu Hazim from Sahl bin Saâd (Allah be pleased with him), he said: âThe people were ordered to place oneâs right hand on his left forearm in Salah.â Abu Hazim said âI do not know it [i.e. this order] but that it is traced to the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace).â Al-Bukhari narrated it.
I say: In this and similarly in what [comes] after it until the hadith of Waâil is proof of the sunnah-status of fastening the hands in Salah, and an explanation of its description, in that the right hand is [placed] over the left hand, not vice versa. This is from that which the Imams have agreed upon in its being sunnah,¹ and they differed only over the site of placing the hands as will come.
2. Narrated from Jabir (Allah be pleased with him), he said âThe Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) passed by a man while he was praying, having placed his left hand on the right, so he caught hold of it and placed the right hand over the left.â Ahmad and al-Tabrani in al-Awsat narrated it; its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih. (Majmaâ al-Zawaâid)
3. Narrated from Ibn âAbbas (Allah be pleased with them), he said: I heard the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) say: âVerily, we, the assembly of Prophets, have been ordered to hasten our evening meal [to break the fast] and delay our predawn meal, and to place our right hand