Skipping a verse of prostration

Abu al-Aliyah said: "The predecessors (salaf) regarded it as disliked to skip the verse of prostration in order to avoid prostrating."

Al-Sha'bi said: The predecessors used to consider it disliked to leave out the verse of prostration in order to avoid prostrating, and they also used to consider it disliked to recite a verse of prostration and pass on without prostrating.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: Three innovations have arisen among the people: leaving out the verse of prostration in order to avoid prostrating, and raising the hands in supplication. The narrator Hushaym said: I have forgotten the third.

Abd al-Aziz bin Qurayr said: I asked Ibn Sirin about leaving out the verse of prostration in order to avoid prostrating. He considered it disliked, frowned, and said: I do not know what this practice is!

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: Leaving out the verse of prostration in order to avoid prostrating is a practice the people have invented.

Ibrahim said: The predecessors used to consider it disliked that the verse of prostration be left out in order to avoid prostrating.

Al-Hasan used to consider it disliked that the verse of prostration be left out in order to avoid prostrating.

Shahr bin Hawshab said: Leaving out the verse of prostration in order to avoid prostrating is a practice the people have invented.