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260. ‘Abbās bin Sahl [bin Sa’d] narrated: “Abū Ḥumaid, Abū Usaid, Sahl bin Sa’d, and Muḥammad bin Maslamah were once together and they were mentioning the Ṣalāt of Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ. Abū Ḥumaid said: ‘I am the most knowledgeable among you of the Ṣalāt of Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ: Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ would bow and place his hands on his knees as if he was grasping them, and he would draw his forearms to hold them away from his sides.’” (Hasan)
He said: There is something on this topic from Anas.
Abū ‘Isā said: The Hadīth of Abū Ḥumaid is a Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth. It is the one that was preferred by the people of knowledge: That a man is to hold his forearms away from his sides while bowing and prostrating.
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Commentary
Keeping the hands apart from the body in Ruku' and Sujud is an agreed issue; and the forearms should be stretched like the leather string of the shooting bow; because Tawtir means to stretch the string on the bow.
