Abdur-Rahman al-Muawl said: Abdullah bin Umar saw me playing with pebbles during prayer. When he finished his prayer, he forbade me (to do so) and said: Do as the Messenger ﷺ used to do. I asked him: How would the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do? He said: When he sat during the prayer (for reciting the tashahhud), he placed his right hand on his right thigh, and clenched all his fingers, and pointed with the finger which is adjacent to the thumb, and he placed his left hand on his left thigh.
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / أبواب تفريع استفتاح الصلاة / 987
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:صحيح | زبیر علی زئی:صحيح مسلم (580)
Abdullah bin al-Zubair said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sat during the prayer ( at the tashahhud), he placed his left foot under his right thigh and shin and spread his right foot and placed his left hand on his left knee and placed his right hand on his right thigh, and he pointed with his forefinger.
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / أبواب تفريع استفتاح الصلاة / 988
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:صحيح | زبیر علی زئی:صحيح مسلم (579)
Narrated Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr: The Prophet ﷺ used to point with his finger (at the end of the tashahhud) and he would not move it. Ibn Juraij said: "And Amr bin Dinar added: 'He (Ziyad) said: "Amir informed me from his father that he saw the Prophet ﷺ supplicating like that. And the Prophet ﷺ would brace himself with his left hand on his left knee.
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / أبواب تفريع استفتاح الصلاة / 989
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:شاذ بقوله ولا يحركها | زبیر علی زئی:ضعيف, إسناده ضعيف, نسائي (1271), ابن عجلان عنعن, انوار الصحيفه، صفحه نمبر 47
Hadith Takhrij« سنن النسائی/السہو 35 (1271)، (تحفة الأشراف: 5264)، وقد أخرجہ: مسند احمد (4/3) (شاذ) » ( «ولا يحركها» کے جملہ کے ساتھ شاذ ہے) « قَالَ ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ وَزَادَ عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍ: قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَامِرٌ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّهُ رَأَى النَّبِيَّ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم يَدْعُو كَذَلِكَ، وَيَتَحَامَلُ النَّبِيُّ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم بِيَدِهِ الْيُسْرَى عَلَى فَخْذِهِ الْيُسْرَى (صحیح) »
Abdullah bin al-Zubair narrated the above mentioned tradition on the authority of his father saying: He kept his look fixed on the finger he was pointing.
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / أبواب تفريع استفتاح الصلاة / 990
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:حسن صحيح | زبیر علی زئی:إسناده حسن, ابن عجلان صرح بالسماع عند أحمد (4/3)
Hadith Takhrij« انظر ما قبلہ، (تحفة الأشراف: 5264) (حسن صحیح) »
Narrated Abu Malik Numayr al-Khuzai: I saw the Prophet (peace be upon him placing his right hand on his right thigh and raising his forefinger curving it a little.
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / أبواب تفريع استفتاح الصلاة / 991
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:ضعيف | زبیر علی زئی:إسناده حسن, أخرجه النسائي (1272 وسنده صحيح) وصححه ابن خزيمة (715، 716 وسندھما حسن) مالك بن نمير وثقه ابن حبان وابن خزيمة بتصحيح حديثه فھو حسن الحديث
Hadith Takhrij« سنن النسائی/السھو 36 (1272)، سنن ابن ماجہ/إقامة الصلاة 27 (911)، (تحفة الأشراف: 11710)، وقد أخرجہ: مسند احمد (3/471) (ضعیف) » (اس کے راوی مالک لین الحدیث ہیں) »