How Many Toes Should Be Touching the Ground in Prostration (Sajda)?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
I have waswasa and doubts about the quality of my prayer and constantly wonder if my sujud is done correctly. When making sajdah, how many toes should be touching the floor?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
I pray you are well.
The obligatory (fard) is to place the toes on the ground, even a toe of each foot. As for the emphasized sunna, it is to place the bottom of the toes on the ground such that they face the qibla. [Ibn ’Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar; ’Ala’uddin ‘Ibn ’Abidin, al-Hadiyyah al-’Ala’iyyah]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete hifz of Quran in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.
