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[Prostration of Qurʾanic recitation while standing is better than while sitting]

Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, was asked about a man who, while reciting the Noble Book in the company of others, comes to a verse of prostration, whereupon he rises to his feet and prostrates. Is his performing the prostration in this standing manner superior to doing it while seated or not? And does such an act amount to ostentation and hypocrisy?

He answered:

Rather, the prostration of recitation performed while standing is better than that performed while sitting, as affirmed by the scholars who have addressed the matter among the adherents of al-Shafiʿi, Ahmad, and others, and as transmitted from ʿAʾishah; likewise—