The Prophet ﷺ used to spread out his left foot and keep his right foot upright, and he forbade sitting like Satan.In another narration, he forbade the posture of Satan.
كان النبي ﷺ يفرش رجله اليسرى، وينصب رجله اليمنى، وكان ينهى عن عقبة الشيطان. وفي رواية: كان ينهى عن عقب الشيطان.
Muslim narrated it in "Prayer" (498) through Husayn Muallim, from Budayl bin Maysara, from Abu Jawza, from Ayesha, in a long hadith mentioned earlier at the beginning of the chapter on reciting Fatihah al-Kitab, and in the chapter on moderation in ruku and sujud.As for his saying, "He used to forbid the devil's crouch," this is the disliked iq'aa (squatting) which the linguists explained, as mentioned before. If we take iq'aa to be of two types, one explained by the linguists, which would be disliked, and one explained by the jurists, which would be recommended, then the two hadiths can be reconciled in this way, and we would not need to resort to abrogating what Ibn Abbas said, as Maziri claimed, asserting that Ibn Abbas was unaware of the abrogating hadiths containing the prohibition of iq'aa.Ibn Hajar suggested another possibility, namely that the prohibition mentioned in this hadith concerns sitting for the final tashahhud, while sitting on the heels between the two prostrations is a separate matter. See Talkhis (1/258), where he was following Bayhaqi in this (1/120), who says, "So it would not contradict what we have narrated from Ibn Abbas and Ibn Umar regarding sitting between the two prostrations." End of quote.Among the disliked forms of iq'aa is that a man sits in prayer leaning on his left hand, as reported in...