Conclusion (*)
Everything that has been mentioned above about the Prophet’s ﷺ manner of prayer applies equally to men and women. The Sunnah contains nothing that would exclude women from any of it; rather, the universal wording of his ﷺ statement, “Pray as you have seen me pray,” embraces them as well. This was also the position of Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, who said, “A woman performs the prayer exactly as a man does.” Ibn Abī Shaybah recorded this (1/75/2) with a sound chain of transmission.

The report that a woman should draw herself in during prostration and that, in this respect, she is not like a man is mursal and therefore of no evidentiary value. It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd in al-Marāsīl (117/87) from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, and it is listed in al-Ḍaʿīfa (2652) [see p. 637].

As for what Imām Aḥmad related in Masāʾil Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ʿanhu (p. 71) from Ibn ʿUmar—that he used to instruct his womenfolk to sit cross-legged in the prayer—its chain is not authentic because it contains ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-ʿUmari, who is weak.

Al-Bukhārī (**) likewise narrated in al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr (p. 95) with a sound chain from Umm al-Dardāʾ that she used to sit in her prayer in the same posture as a man, and she was a scholar of jurisprudence.