Those who disliked that

Al-Haytham bin Shihab saw a man who was praying while sitting cross-legged. He forbade him from doing so, but the man refused to obey him. Al-Haytham said: I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) say: "That I sit on two stones heated in fire is dearer to me than that I sit cross-legged in prayer."

Shu'bah says: I asked al-Hakam about sitting cross-legged in prayer, and it was as if he disliked it. He said, and I think he said: Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) disliked it.

Hammad says: Ibrahim declared it disliked to sit cross-legged in prayer, and he said: In prayer, do not sit the way you sit for conversation.

Ibrahim used to consider it disliked that a man should sit in prayer the way he sits to talk with people.

Al-Mughirah bin Hakim al-San'ani says: I saw Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) sitting cross-legged at the end of the prayer after raising his head from the last prostration. When he had finished the prayer, I asked him about it. He said: "I have pain in my feet."

Nafi' says: Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) prayed sitting cross-legged because of pain.

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) used to consider it disliked that a man should sit cross-legged in prayer before reciting the tashahhud.

Ibn Sirin says: I was informed that Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) prayed sitting cross-legged and said: "This is not a sunnah; I only did it because of pain."

Tawus disliked sitting cross-legged, and he said: It is the sitting of kings.