before our knees, but we were commanded to place our knees before our hands.’” This—and Allah knows best—is an error in the name: the report is actually from Saʿd. As explained above, its wording is also mistaken; it actually concerns placing the joined hands between the thighs while bowing. Allah knows best.

As for the previously mentioned hadith of Abū Hurayrah (1), al-Bukhārī, al-Tirmidhī and al-Dāraqutnī identified defects in it. Al-Bukhārī said (2): “Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hasan has no corroboration for this narration.” He also said: “I do not know whether he heard from Abū al-Zinād.” Al-Tirmidhī said (3): “It is singular; we know it as a narration from Abū al-Zinād only through this route.” Al-Dāraqutnī said (4): “Al-Darāwardī alone narrated it from Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hasan al-ʿAlawī, from Abū al-Zinād.”

Al-Nasāʾī related (5) from Qutaybah, who said: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hasan, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): ‘One of you proceeds, while praying, to kneel as a camel kneels!’” He added nothing further. It was said (6) by