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abudawud:756 – Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb > Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Isḥāq > Ziyād b. Zayd > Abū Juḥayfah > ʿAlī

AbuJuhayfah said: Ali said that it is a sunnah to place one hand on the other in prayer below the navel.  

أبو داود:٧٥٦ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي جُحَيْفَةَ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا ؓ قَالَ

السُّنَّةُ وَضْعُ الْكَفِّ عَلَى الْكَفِّ فِي الصَّلاَةِ تَحْتَ السُّرَّةِ  

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ahmad:875 – ʿAbdullāh > Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Asadī Lūwayn > Yaḥyá b. Abū Zāʾidah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Isḥāq > Ziyād b. Zayd al-Suwāʾī > Abū Juḥayfah > ʿAlī

Part of the Sunnah in prayer is to put one hand over the other beneath the navel.  

أحمد:٨٧٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَسَدِيُّ لُوَيْنٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ السُّوَائِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جُحَيْفَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

إِنَّ مِنَ السُّنَّةِ فِي الصَّلاةِ وَضْعُ الْأَكُفِّ عَلَى الْأَكُفِّ تَحْتَ السُّرَّةِ