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ibnmajah:911 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > ʿIṣām b. Qudāmah > Mālik b. Numayr al-Khuzāʿī from his father

“I saw the Prophet ﷺ putting his right hand on his right thigh during prayer, and pointing with his finger.”  

ابن ماجة:٩١١ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ عِصَامِ بْنِ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ الْخُزَاعِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلاَةِ وَيُشِيرُ بَإِصْبَعِهِ  

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Collected by Nasāʾī, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai:1271 – Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī > al-Muʿāfá > ʿIṣām b. Qudāmah > Mālik / Ibn Numayr al-Khuzāʿī from his father

"I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ putting his right hand on his right thigh when praying and pointing with his finger."  

النسائي:١٢٧١ – أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ عَنِ الْمُعَافَى عَنْ عِصَامِ بْنِ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ مَالِكٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ الْخُزَاعِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلاَةِ وَيُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ  

ahmad:15370 – Jarīr > Manṣūr > Rāshid Abū Saʿd > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abzá from his father

[Machine] The translation of the passage is: "When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to sit during prayer, he would supplicate and place his right hand on his thigh. Then he would point with his finger while supplicating."  

أحمد:١٥٣٧٠ – حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ رَاشِدٍ أَبِي سَعْدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبْزَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا جَلَسَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَدَعَا وَضَعَ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ ثُمَّ كَانَ يُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ إِذَا دَعَا  

ahmad:15867 – Wakīʿ > ʿIṣām b. Qudāmah > Mālik b. Numayr al-Khuzāʿiyyiʿan Abīh

"I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ putting his right hand on his right thigh when praying and pointing with his finger." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1271)  

أحمد:١٥٨٦٧ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا عِصَامُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ الْخُزَاعِيِّعَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلَاةِ يُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ  

ahmad:22540 – Wakīʿ > Abū al-ʿUmays > ʿĀmir / Ibn ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr > al-Zuraqī > Abū Qatādah

[Machine] "The Prophet ﷺ used to place his right hand on his right thigh and point with his finger when sitting in prayer."  

أحمد:٢٢٥٤٠ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعُمَيْسِ عَنْ عَامِرٍ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنِ الزُّرَقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا جَلَسَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ وَضَعَ يَمِينَهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى وَأَشَارَ بِإِصْبَعِهِ  

tabarani:870 – Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Tustarī > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAqīl > Yaḥyá b. Ghaylān > al-Haytham b. ʿAdī > Abūk Ghaylān b. ʿAbdullāh from his father from his grandfather Asmāʾ b. Ḥārithah

[Machine] "I saw the Prophet (PBUH) placing his hand, which I saw on his thigh, and pointing with his finger during the Tashahhud."  

الطبراني:٨٧٠ – حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ غَيْلَانَ ثنا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ ثنا أَبُوكَ غَيْلَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ أَسْمَاءَ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ أُرَاهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ يُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ فِي التَّشَهُّدِ»  

tabarani:18343 – Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Khālid al-Ḥarrānī from my father > Zuhayr > Abū Isḥāq > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Wāʾil from his father

[Machine] I saw the Prophet ﷺ placing his right hand over his left hand during prayer.  

الطبراني:١٨٣٤٣ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا أَبِي ثنا زُهَيْرٌ ثنا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى الْيُسْرَى»  

tabarani:18346 – ʿAbdān b. Aḥmad > ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān al-Ḥimṣī > Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh > Yūnus b. Abū Isḥāq > Abū Isḥāq > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Wāʾil from his father

[Machine] "I saw the messenger of Allah ﷺ placing his right hand on his left hand during prayer, close to the wrist."  

الطبراني:١٨٣٤٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْحِمْصِيُّ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَضَعُ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى الْيُسْرَى فِي الصَّلَاةِ قَرِيبًا مِنَ الرُّسْغِ»  

nasai-kubra:1195 – Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī > al-Muʿāfá > ʿIṣām b. Qudāmah > Mālik / Ibn Numayr al-Khuzāʿī from his father

“I saw the Prophet ﷺ putting his right hand on his right thigh during prayer, and pointing with his finger.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 911)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١١٩٥ – أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ الْمَوصِلِيِّ عَنِ الْمُعَافَى عَنْ عِصَامِ بْنِ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ مَالِكٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «وَاضِعًا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى فِي الصَّلَاةِ يُشِيرُ بِإِصْبُعِهِ»