Source: Extracted from Hudiyyat al-Muslimīn – Namāz ke Aham Masāʾil maʿ Maqmal Namāz al-Nabawiyyah ﷺ by Shaykh Zubair ʿAlī Zai رحمه الله
From Abū Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه):
The Prophet ﷺ mentioned a ḥadīth and said:
"When you stand for prayer, say ‘Allāhu Akbar’, then recite whatever is easy for you from the Qur’ān, then bow until you are at ease in bowing, then rise until you are standing straight, then prostrate until you are at ease in prostration, then sit until you are at ease sitting, then prostrate until you are at ease in prostration. Do this in all your prayer."
[Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: 1/109, Ḥadīth 793; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: 1/170, Ḥadīth 397]
① This ḥadīth proves that tadīl al-arkān (calmness and stillness in every posture of prayer) is obligatory (farḍ).
② Ḥudhayfah (رضي الله عنه) saw a man not performing rukūʿ and sujūd properly, and said:
"You have not prayed, and if you were to die in this state, you would not die upon the natural disposition (Islam) upon which Allah sent Muḥammad ﷺ."
[Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: 1/109, Ḥadīth 791]
③ In the Ḥanafī book al-Hidāyah (1/106–107, summarized), it is written that tadīl al-arkān is not farḍ.
④ In Fatāwā ʿĀlamgīriyyah (1/70, Quetta edition), it is stated that if in sujūd both hands and both knees are not placed on the ground, then (according to the Ḥanafī madhhab) there is consensus that the prayer is valid.
⑤ In Juzʾ al-Qirāʾah of al-Bukhārī, there is a narration:
"When the iqāmah for prayer is given, say ‘Allāhu Akbar’, then recite, then bow."
[Ḥadīth 113, chain authentic]
Ḥadīth Evidence
From Abū Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه):
The Prophet ﷺ mentioned a ḥadīth and said:
"When you stand for prayer, say ‘Allāhu Akbar’, then recite whatever is easy for you from the Qur’ān, then bow until you are at ease in bowing, then rise until you are standing straight, then prostrate until you are at ease in prostration, then sit until you are at ease sitting, then prostrate until you are at ease in prostration. Do this in all your prayer."
[Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: 1/109, Ḥadīth 793; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: 1/170, Ḥadīth 397]
Benefits and Rulings
① This ḥadīth proves that tadīl al-arkān (calmness and stillness in every posture of prayer) is obligatory (farḍ).
② Ḥudhayfah (رضي الله عنه) saw a man not performing rukūʿ and sujūd properly, and said:
"You have not prayed, and if you were to die in this state, you would not die upon the natural disposition (Islam) upon which Allah sent Muḥammad ﷺ."
[Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: 1/109, Ḥadīth 791]
③ In the Ḥanafī book al-Hidāyah (1/106–107, summarized), it is written that tadīl al-arkān is not farḍ.
- In Taqrīr Tirmidhī by Maḥmūd al-Ḥasan al-Diyobandī, without chain, it is narrated that Imām Abū Ḥanīfah رحمه الله prayed behind Abū Yūsuf, who performed the prayer quickly without tadīl al-arkān. Imām Abū Ḥanīfah said: "Our Yaʿqūb (Abū Yūsuf) has become a jurist today."
- Later, at another time, Imām Abū Ḥanīfah repeated that prayer as nafl.
④ In Fatāwā ʿĀlamgīriyyah (1/70, Quetta edition), it is stated that if in sujūd both hands and both knees are not placed on the ground, then (according to the Ḥanafī madhhab) there is consensus that the prayer is valid.
- This ruling contradicts authentic aḥādīth and is therefore rejected. Such a prayer resembles the act of a juggler, not a worshipper — al-ʿiyādh billāh.
⑤ In Juzʾ al-Qirāʾah of al-Bukhārī, there is a narration:
"When the iqāmah for prayer is given, say ‘Allāhu Akbar’, then recite, then bow."
[Ḥadīth 113, chain authentic]
- This narration proves the obligation of recitation behind the imām. Al-ḥamdu lillāh.
