A man praying while sitting in ihtiba

Al-Hasan saw no harm in praying while sitting in ihtiba' (with the knees drawn up and held), while Ibn Sirin considered it disliked.

Ibrahim used to pray sitting in ihtiba'.

Hisham said: Urwah used to pray sitting in ihtiba'.

Talhah bin Yahya said: I saw Isa bin Talhah offering a voluntary prayer sitting in ihtiba' behind the Station of Ibrahim.

Talhah bin Yahya said: I saw Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman praying sitting in ihtiba'.

Abbad bin Mansur said: I saw Umar bin Abd al-Aziz offering a voluntary prayer sitting in ihtiba' behind the Station of Ibrahim.

The father of al-Hasan bin Amr said: I saw Sa'id bin Jubayr praying sitting in ihtiba'. When he was about to bow, he would undo his ihtiba', then stand up and bow. (Ihtiba' means that a person sits on his buttocks with his knees raised and clasps his hands around them for support, or ties a cloth around his back and knees. The Arabs often used to sit in this way.)

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib used to pray sitting in ihtiba'.

Amr bin Dinar said: I saw Ubayd bin Umayr praying sitting in ihtiba'.

Al-Rabi' bin Subayh said: I saw Ata praying sitting in ihtiba', meaning the voluntary prayer.