English translation
1111. Ya'lā bin Shaddād bin Aws said: "I attended the Friday prayer with Mu'āwiyah bin Abi Sufyān in Bait Al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), and I saw that most of the people in the Masjid were Companions of the Prophet ﷺ; I saw them sitting in the Ihtibā' position while the Imām was delivering his Khutbah." (Da'if) Abū Dāwud said: Ibn 'Umar used to sit in the Ihtibā' position while the Imām was delivering his Khutbah. And Anas bin Mālik, Shurāih, Sha'ā'ah bin Suwḥān, Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab, Ibrāhīm An-Nakha'i, Makhūl, Ismā'il bin Muhammad bin Sa'd and Nu'aim bin Salāmah all said that there is no harm in it. [1] To sit with one's thighs gathered up against the stomach, while wrapping one's arms or garment around them, or, sitting in the same manner when the private area becomes exposed.