Where Should You Place Your Hands in Prayer: On the Chest or Hanging Down? | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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🕌 What is the ruling on letting the hands hang down (Isdal al-Yadayn) during prayer? Is there a hadith on this matter, or is it only the view of Imam Malik? Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan explains that the Sunnah established from the Prophet ﷺ is to place the right hand over the left and rest them on the chest. This is the authentic practice. Letting the hands hang (isbal/irsal) is contrary to the Sunnah. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ However, if someone prays with his hands hanging, his prayer is still valid, because he has left a Sunnah, not an obligation. He misses the reward of following the Sunnah but the prayer itself remains correct. As for Imam Malik, it is said that the hadith regarding placing the hands on the chest did not reach him, or he may have had a personal need or reason that led him to let his hands hang. The principle is clear: once the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ becomes known, there is no statement for anyone that can oppose it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Original Fatwa Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksi0k1LIyAw ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Prayer #Salah #Fiqh #Sunnah #Salafi #Tawheed #ShaykhFawzan #Hadith #IslamicKnowledge #Muslim #Worship #Deen #IslamicReminder #Sujood #Ruku #IslamicFiqh #IslamicLaw #IslamicScholars #QuranAndSunnah #IslamicTeachings #AuthenticIslam #IslamicClarity #SunnahWay #ProphetMuhammad #IslamicGuidance #IslamicRulings #CorrectPrayer #IslamicStudies #AhlusSunnah