the conclusion: everything previously mentioned regarding his (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) manner of prayer applies equally to both men and women. There is nothing in the sunnah that suggests women are exempt from any part of it. Indeed, the general statement of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Pray as you have seen me pray" includes them. This is also the opinion of Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, who said: "A woman does in prayer as a man does." It was recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah (1/75/2) with a sound chain of narration from him. The ḥadīth about a woman drawing herself together in prostration and that she is not like a man in this is mursal and holds no proof. It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd in (al-Marāsīl) (117/87) from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, and it is referenced in (al-Ḍaʿīfah) (2652). As for what Imām Aḥmad narrated in (Masāʾil Ibnihi ʿAbd Allāh ʿanhu) (p. 71) from Ibn ʿUmar, that he used to instruct his women to sit cross-legged in prayer, its isnād is not authentic because it includes ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿUmrī, who is weak. Al-Bukhārī narrated in (al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr) (p. 95) with a sound chain from Umm al-Dardāʾ: "that she used to sit in her prayer like a man, and she was knowledgeable in fiqh." This is the last of what has been gathered regarding the description of the Prophet's (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prayer, from the takbīr to the salutation. I ask Allāh, the Exalted, to make it purely for His noble face and a guide to the sunnah of His compassionate and merciful Prophet