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Tatbiq (placing one palm on the other between the knees in bowing)

التطبيق

Tatbiq is the worshipper placing the back of one palm on the back of the other and setting them between his knees and thighs in bowing. Most jurists dislike it, on the report of Musab ibn Sad who was told that the early practice was abrogated and that the hands are to be placed on the knees. Ibn Masud and his companions Alqama and al-Aswad held tatbiq to be the sunna, and an-Nawawi explains that the abrogation had not reached them. 1 2

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Overview

Tatbiq is the worshipper placing the inner side of one palm on the inner side of the other and setting them between his knees and thighs in bowing. 1

Ruling

Most jurists dislike it, citing the report of Musab ibn Sad who prayed beside his father, joined his palms and was forbidden by him: «we used to do it and were forbidden, and we were ordered to place our hands on the knees». 2

Those who held it the sunna

Ibn Masud and his companions Alqama and al-Aswad held tatbiq to be the sunna; al-Nakha'i and Abu Ubayda took it up, and an-Nawawi explains that the abrogation had not reached them. 2

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5305
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5306
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islam.museum contributors. “Tatbiq (placing one palm on the other between the knees in bowing)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/tatbiq-hands-in-bowing/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.