To place them on the chest is what is proven in the Sunnah, and all that is contrary to it is either ḍaʿīf or totally baseless.
Below is a translation from ‘Tuhfatul Aḥwadhī bi sharḥ Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī’ by al-Mubārakfūrī, on the issue of where to place one’s hands in prayer, (vol. 2, pp. 74+)
[Start of Quote from al-Tirmidhī]
“Chapter: what occurs with regards to placing the right hand upon the left in prayer
‘….and some of them were of the opinion that you place them above the navel, and some below the navel. And all of this was flexible according to them.’
[End of quote from al-T…
And the answer is that there is no evidence in it for forbidding raising of the hands at specific places in the prayer and at specific times, and that is at the rukuʿ and rising from it.
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mubārakfūrī
On Raising the Hands in Prayer (Part 1)
[Start of quote from At-Tirmidhī ‘…’ indicates the omission of isnād]
Chapter 189 – Raising Hands at Ruku’
255: …From Saalim from his father (ibn ʿUmar) who said,
“I saw the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ raise his hands up to his shoulders when he started the prayer, and when he went into ruku` and when he raised his h…
So if the heart is submissive, the eyes, ears, head, face, and the rest of the limbs are submissive; the same goes for whatever emanates from them, to the extent that it reaches the speech
al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Rajab
As for becoming accustomed to talking to one another in a language other than Arabic, which is the symbol of Islām and the language of the Qurʾān, so that this becomes a habit in the land, with one’s family and household members, with one’s friends, in the marketplace, when addressing government representatives or authority figures or when speaking to people of knowledge, undoubtedly this is makrūh (disliked), because it involves being like the non-Arabs, which is makrūh, as stated previously.
Hence when the early Muslims went to live in Syria and Egypt, where the people spoke Byzantine Greek…
And know that al-ʿIbādah (worship) has four principles, and they are, [i] ascertaining that which Allāh and His Messenger love and are pleased with, establishing that with [ii] the heart, [iii] the tongue and [iv] the limbs. So al-ʿubūdiyyah is a comprehensive term for all of these stages.
Shaykh Sulaymān al-Sulaymī
I. True Freedom
Without doubt, we all hate the slavery and subjugation we see upon the earth today. That being the subjugation of men over men, where some subjugate others, humiliating them and trampling over them. This is indeed hated. However, what we will talk about today is d…
The Imām, Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (رحمه الله) mentioned:1 Know, that in the fast (Ṣawm) is a special quality that is not found in anything else. And that is its close connection to Allāh, such that He says:
“The Fast (Ṣawm) is for Me and I will reward it.”2
This connection is enough to show the high status of fasting. Similarly, the Kaʿbah is highly dignified due to its close connection to Him, as occurs in His statement:
“And sanctify My House.”3
Indeed, the fast is only virtuous due to two significant concepts:
The First: It is a secret and hidden action, thus, no one from the creation…
Allāh -The Most High – said:
شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَىٰ وَالْفُرْقَانِ ۚ فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ ۖ ﴿١٨٥﴾
“The month of Ramaḍān in which the Qurʾān was revealed, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance of the Criterion between right and wrong. So whosoever of you sights the crescent for the month of Ramaḍān, he must fast that month.”
[al-Baqarah, 2:185].
Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ) said:
“Islām is built upon five: Testifying that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh and the Muḥamm…
Zakāt al-Fiṭr is not permissible except (to be paid) from food. And it is not allowed to discharge its value in money. This is because the Prophet (ﷺ) made it obligatory (to be discharged) from a sāʾ of dates or a sāʾ of barley.
Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīnQ.1 Is it permissible to discharge the obligation of Zakāt al-Fitr on the first day of Ramaḍān? And is it permissible to distribute it in money?
As for the discharging of it on the first day of Ramaḍān – there is Ikhtilāf (difference of opinion among the scholars) about it. The most correct opinion is that it’s not permissible, be…
During the Ḥajj period itself, the atmosphere around the sacred precincts of the Kaʿbah was like a circus. Men and women would go round the Kaʿbah naked, arguing that they should present themselves before Allāh in the same condition they were born.
Ḥajj literally means ‘to set out for a place’. Islamically however it refers to the annual pilgrimage that Muslims make to Makkah with the intention of performing certain religious rites in accordance with the method prescribed by the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).
Ḥajj and its rites were first ordained by Allāh in the time of the Prophet lbrāhīm [Abraham…
