CHAPTER: MODERATION IN PROSTRATION, PLACING THE PALMS ON THE EARTH (GROUND) AND KEEPING AWAY ELBOWS FROM THE SIDES AND THE BELLY FROM THE THIGHS WHILE PROSTRATING
No. 997
Anas reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Observe moderation in prostration, and let none of you stretch out his forearms (on the ground) like a dog.
No. 998
This hadith has been narrated by Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters. And in the hidith transmitted by Ibn Ja'far (the words are):" None of you should stretch out his forearms like the stretching out of a dog."
No. 999
Al-Bira' (b. 'Azib) reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said. When you prostrate yourself, place the palms of your hands on the ground and raise your elbows.
No. 1000
'Abdullah b. Malik ibn Bujainah reported: When the Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrated, lie spread out his arms so that the whiteness of his armpits was visible.
No. 1001
This hadith has been narrated by Ja'far b. Rabi' with the same chain of transmitters. And in the narration transmitted by 'Amr b. al-Harith (the words are):" When the Messenger of Allaah (rtiay sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrated, he spread out his arms so that the whiteness of his armpits was visible." And in the narration transmitted by al-Laith (the words are:" When the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrated. he spread his hands from the armpits so that I saw their whiteness."
No. 1002
Maimuna reported: When the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrated himself, if a lamb wanted to pass between his arms, it could pass.
No. 1003
Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), reported: When the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrated himself, he spread his arms, i. e. he separated them so much that the whiteness of his armpits became visible from behind and when he sat (for Jalsa) he rested on his left thigh.
No. 1004
Maimuna daughter of Harith reported: When the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrated, he kept his hands so much apart from each other that when it was seen from behind the armpits became visible. Waki' said: That is their whiteness.