A given provision of Sacred Law may well differ from one prophetic dispensation to another; yet prostrating to, and worshipping, anyone besides Allah is categorically forbidden in the religion upon which all of God’s messengers are united. The Exalted says:
“Ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint, apart from the All-Merciful, gods to be worshipped?” (al-Zukhruf 43:45)
Ibn ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with them both—once saw a man in prayer leaning on his left hand while seated. He said to him, “Do not sit like that, for that is how the people under punishment sit.” Another wording states, “That is the prayer of those who have incurred wrath,” and in yet another narration, “The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—forbade a man to sit in prayer while supporting himself on his hand.” All three reports are related by Abū Dāwūd.
This ḥadith therefore prohibits that posture, explaining that it is the sitting of the punished—an emphatic measure to keep us far from their manner.
Al-Bukhārī likewise transmits from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾishah, that she used to dislike