The difference between the prayer of a man and a woman

Question

Question: here the way men and women perform the prayer differs. Why is that? Is it known from any hadith that women should perform the prayer in a different way? I mean the way of going down into sajda and the way of placing the feet in a particular manner. Yet in the hadith there is also that he ﷺ said: "Do not sit in the mosque the way a dog sits" — anyway, the words are something like that. And the way women are taught to go down [into sajda] produces something like that very form.

Answer

The command for women to prostrate in this way is in the hadith itself. The ulama did not issue this ruling on their own for the sake of some expediency, contradicting the hadith or dispensing with it: [ar]وَالْمَرْأَةُ تَنْخَفِضُ وَتُلْزِقُ بَطْنَهَا بِفَخِذَيْهَا؛ لِمَا رُوِيَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَرَّ عَلَى امْرَأَتَيْنِ تُصَلِّيَانِ…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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