Question:
Is putting the hands back on the chest after rukoo’ allowed?
Answer:
There’s no evidence for that, and the ones who understood from that he used to do it whenever he was in Salaah, he didn’t use to do it in his prostration, and he didn’t used to do it in rukoo’, he used to do it while he was reciting.
It wasn’t relayed, if the Prophet ﷺ did that it would’ve been relayed as the rest of the attributes. For indeed there has been relayed from the attributes what is more precise than this, the attributes of Salaah, and he is the one that said:
صلوا كما رأيتموني أصلي
“Pray as you see me pray.”
So the likes of this is he used to do after rukoo’, they wouldn’t relay it? And Bukhaari has indeed relayed as you see and he is precise in one baab numerous attributes of Salaah, and other than him from the Fuqahaa (Scholars of Fiqh), there is no evidence for this.
And we don’t say it’s a Bid’ah, due to the possibility of those generalities that he such and such, so we don’t say Bid’ah but what is more closer to the truth is not returning them to the chest after rukoo’, due to the lack of reports of that, and acts of worship are restricted to the religious text.
They relayed his indicating, they relayed his Tasleem, they relayed the place which the Prophet ﷺ used to put his hands in Salaah, on the wrist, on the forearm, they relayed the sitting in between prostrations, they relayed things in Salaah with precision,
إِنِّي لأَشْبَهُكُمْ صَلاَةً بِرَسُولِ اللَّه
“My prayer has the most resemblance to the prayer of the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ than all of you”.
Then he mentioned, and Abu Humayd in the Hadith along with ten of the Sahaabah relayed in that Hadith a number of Sunan and Waajibaat and other than that.
Answered by: Shaykh, the Allamah, the Trustworthy Advisor, Abu Abdirrahman Yahya bin Ali Al-Hajuri – may Allah preserve him
Source: https://t.me/sh_yahia_duroos/9891
Translated by: Abū ‘Abdillāh ‘Omar bin Yahya Al-‘Akawi