Placing both knees “together” in sajda

Question

In 'Ilm al-Fiqh (by Mawlana 'Abd al-Shakur Lakhnawi), in the section on the sunnas of prayer, it says that in the state of sajda both knees should be kept joined (together). What I wish to ask is: is doing so really sunna? To this day I have not seen it in any book, nor heard it from any scholar.

Answer

The meaning of placing them “joined” or “together” is that both are put down at the same time — not that one puts one knee, say the right, down first and the other (the left) afterwards. It is found in the books of fiqh that both knees are to be put down together, and this has been expressed by the word “together”: [ar]لا تيامن في وضع الركبتين[/ar] “There is no starting with…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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