two expressions: unrestricted and restricted, or general and detailed: "when he sat in prayer, he placed his hands on his knees and raised his right finger next to the thumb and supplicated with it..." thus, the sitting is unrestricted. The other: "when he sat in the tashahhud, he placed his left hand on his left knee, and his right hand on his right knee..." the ḥadīth. Thus, the sitting is restricted to the tashahhud. And similarly, the wording of the ḥadīth of Ibn al-Zubayr. The first expression "sat" includes all forms of sitting, such as sitting between the two prostrations, and sitting between the second prostration and the second rakʿah, known among scholars as the sitting of rest. So I used to say: it is likely that we will see some of them in these two sittings! It was not long before I was told that some students were pointing with it between the two prostrations! Then I saw it with my own eyes from one of the graduates of the Islamic University when he visited me at my home in the first year (1404)! And we are awaiting the occurrence of the third innovation, which is pointing with it in the sitting of rest! Then what I awaited happened, and Allāh is the one whose help is sought! A similar misleading abbreviation suggesting the legitimacy of pointing in every sitting occurred in the ḥadīth of Wāʾil as well, from the narration of ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb from his father from him, and it is in "Musnad Aḥmad" (4/316-319) in two ways: first, pointing unrestrictedly without restriction to tashahhud. It was recorded (4/116-117) through the route of Shuʿbah from him with the wording: "and he spread his left thigh over his right, and pointed with his index finger." Ibn Khuzaymah also recorded it in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1/345/697), but he said at its end: "meaning in the sitting of tashahhud." This interpretation is either from Wāʾil or from one of his narrators, and the first is more likely for what follows. And in a wording for him in the "Musnad" (4/316) from the narration of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid with the wording: