Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 145-150
Chapter
21: The manner of sitting in prayer and how to place the hands on the thighs.
Abdullah b. Zubair narrated on the authority
of his father:
When the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ) sat in prayer. he placed the left foot between his thigh and shank and
stretched the right foot and placed his left hand on his left knee and placed
his right hand on his right thigh, and raised his finger. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 145)
'Abdullah b.
Zubair narrated on the authority of his father that when the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ) sat for supplication, i. e. tashahhud (blessing and supplication), he
placed his right hand on his right thigh and his left hand on his left thigh,
and pointed with his forefinger, and placed his thumb on his (middle) finger,
and covered his knee with the palm of his left hand. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 146)
Ibn 'Umar
reported that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat for tashahhud he placed his
left hand on his left knee. and his right hand on his right knee. and he raised
his right finger, which is next to the thumb, making supplication in this way,
and he stretched his left hand on his left knee. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 147)
Another version on the authority of Ibn Umar
says:
When the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ) sat for tashahhud, he placed his left hand on his left knee and placed his
right hand on his right knee, and he formed a ring like (fifty-three) and
pointed with his finger of attestation. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 148)
'Ali b. 'Abual-Rahman al-Mu'awi reported:
'Abdullah b. Umar saw me
playing with pebbles during prayer. After finishing the prayer he forbade me
(to do it) and said: Do as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to do. I said: How
did Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) do? He said that he (the Messenger of Allah) sat at
tashahhud, placed his right palm on the right thigh and closed all his fingers
and pointed with the help of finger next to the thumb, and placed his left palm
on his left thigh. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 149)
This hadith has
been narrated by another chain of transmitters. (Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 150)
Sahih
Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 145-150
Sahih Muslim Book 5 – Hadith 133-144
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