{"id":12723,"date":"2026-02-05T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:37:29","slug":"shaking-hands-after-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=12723","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Ruling of Shaking Hands After Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Shaking Hands After Prayer<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #800080\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">What is the ruling of shaking hands after offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/two-people-praying-together-stand-salah\/\">congregational prayer<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #800080\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;If one of you meets his brother, then he should greet him with Salam.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/abu-dawud-the-faqih-and-scholar-of-hadith\/\">Abu Dawud<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">In this hadith, the Prophet (peace be upon him) has commanded the Muslims, when any of them encounters his Muslim brother to greet him with Salam. It is an expression of love between the two who shake hands, as it dispels hatred, rancor and grudges among the Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">What about shaking hands after offering prayer? Is it sunnah to shake hands after every prayer? Is it something related to the prayer?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">To get the answer and more about the ruling of such act after offering prayer, you can watch this short video with Dr. Muhammad Salah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em> <\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/shaking-hands-after-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is shaking hands after offering prayer an innovation? What is the ruling of shaking hands in Islam? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[8136,1920,9,1805,1841,1569,4960,374,1850,1052,1575,1576,1577,4417,8137,8138],"class_list":["post-12723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-common-mistakes-in-salah","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-featured","tag-guide-to-prayer","tag-how-to-make-salah","tag-how-to-pray","tag-innovations-in-prayer","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-namaz","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-shaking-hands-after-prayer","tag-shaking-hands-after-salah","tag-shaking-hands-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shaking-hands-after-prayer-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}