Sadl: To Fold Or Not To Fold? | Mufti Abu Layth

let's just take for a moment this discussion very momentarily I don't want to expand too much on it what is the ruling of holding your hands or folding your hands in Salah if you say Sunnah then if one doesn't do it should they do nobody has ever said that you just saw for not folding your arms nobody classical in Islam

in fact this is why they don't consider this from the emphasize or from from the emphasized sunnan in Salah because there is not one not even one Hadith on where to place your hands in prayer not even a single Hadith it must be clear and it must be Psy not even one now look at that that's such a you know wake up pill because everybody would have been told what do you mean I'm sure there must be so many

there isn't even one a kid out every single Hadith on where to place the hands in Praise either weak or it's ambiguous it's not clear so if you're going to look in bukhari it does not say the prophet sallallahu alaihi it's some person said um we were commanded to do this who commanded you they may say well well that's obvious it's the prophet it's not so obvious it's not necessarily

obvious and if you are commanded then surely it must be from the word of Salah and if it's from the Sunnah of Salah surely if you mess it up you should do sujood why does no method say you should do the sahu you take the other Hadith in bukhari and he's saying about placing the hands on the hunt but then what does that says I and I I believe he's talking that he's I believe he's referring this back to the prophet

as in he says uh he says that is that is directed as in he it is assumed sorry that it is like assumed that we we're talking about the prophet here even if says that you had he not said that well the Hadith would have been okay but now it's like well hmm why is he having doubt why is he why is the person narrating the Hadith saying it's most probably the prophet we're talking about here that the guidance is going back to

tits It's not sorry it's not clear something's as simple as where to place your hands should have been clear why do the other Hadith say that when you do takwid every limb went back to its resting place what is the natural resting place if you're standing up in your hands I just wish it where should the resting place be so it's interesting you see now you take something like this let alone the fact that almost every mother herb had the opinion of holding the hands at the side

said that it's clearly the Maliki method it was in it's in the humbly mother it's I believe one of the I believe it may be from the amongst the shafael but it's in the humbly method it was the method of he was the method of the mother of the mother of inside it was the mother of I mean how are all of these people not knowing Islam and there's an epistemological so there's a discussion on this first of all there is no single sahiadith on

where to fold the hands in prayer not a single that's why it's not from the clear summon in Salah to fold your arms it's recommended or they may say it's a lesser Sunnah then you have a discussion on epistemology how is it that you think people learned Islam you think they learned Islam from Abu Dhabi who come 250 years after the prophet they learned Islam through the living tradition precedes the documentation of Philip the

living Sunnah the living tradition precedes the documentation and the efforts of the mahadithin the mahadithin project doesn't come into effect until centuries after Islam fake was already documented Imam Malik in his time his mother alone has over 30 000 fatawah documented in his time Abu hanifa's a hundred thousand Messiah documented the firk proceeds

Hadith is Sunnah Sunnah proceeds Hadith I understand this those Scholars who do not make that distinction between Hadith and Sunnah but then you need to ha one needs to highlight this in a discussion one needs to say that look there are those who are whom through this distinction because they are the early ulama of Islam

that is combined is probably what 70 percent of all Sunni Islam Today on the world on the globe that's the Maliki method and the hanafi madhub and the Maliki mother is like three quarters almost of entire so at least you're talking it is between two-thirds to three quarters of entire Sunni Islam on the globe today that's not like a small but that is a

huge proportion is the overwhelm I mean majority of Sunni Islam on the globe today so if you're looking at most of Asia central Asia and all that part of the globe you can see behind me all the Central Asian all those populated countries are hanafi in fact and if you're looking at Maliki most of uh Islam in Africa is Maliki and then you've just got the Middle East and there you've got some hanafi like Iraq and you've got some charity but still Iraq would still probably be you know

plentiful 100 and then you've just got Jordan Syria and these small countries and you can have some chafee in Egypt you'll have a mixture probably predominantly in Egypt but then you'll still have hanifi you'll have Maliki in Lower Egypt uh you know you you you're going sorry in the side in those places so it's still looking at the majority of the entire Muslim world this is how they understand Islam that they understand Hadith and Sunnah not to be the same but whether they know it or not but their books teach this so it's a big thing you know these things cannot be just oh it's

not important very important but yeah I digress we'll discuss that another day