{"id":2868,"date":"2016-03-13T05:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2016-03-13T05:55:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T05:55:58","slug":"the-innovation-of-touching-the-earlobes-with-the-thumbs-when-raising-the-hands-in-prayer-shaikh-al-albani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"The Innovation of Touching the Earlobes With the Thumbs When Raising the Hands in Prayer &#8211; Shaikh al-Albani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>Shaikh al-Albani rahimahullah said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Every position which the hands are raised have two forms [of doing so] without specifying [this for] a position. So [for] the\u00a0opening Takbir or the Takbir when going\u00a0into ruku&#8217; or other than that, either he raises the hands to his ears without touching the earlobes as some of those who are afflicted with satanic whispers do. Or he lowers them a little to the level of the top of the shoulders. So which ever of them he does, he has come with the Sunnah. The best is to do this one sometimes and that one sometimes<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>[Ashritah al-Mutafarriqah no. 167]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translator\u2019s Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shaikh al-Albani rahimahullah also said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Note: Touching the\u00a0earlobes\u00a0with the thumbs [while raising the hands in Takbir]\u00a0has not been reported from the Prophet (\ufdfa). So touching them is an innovation or a satanic whisper. The Sunnah is to align the ears or\u00a0shoulders with the two palms only<\/strong>&#8221; [Mishkaat al-Masaabih (1\/252)].<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaikh al-Albani rahimahullah said: &#8220;Every position which the hands are raised have two forms [of doing so] without specifying [this for] a position. So [for] the\u00a0opening Takbir or the Takbir when going\u00a0into ruku&#8217; or other than that, either he raises the hands to his ears without touching the earlobes as some of those who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}