Sajda Sahav, Women's Prostration Method And Tawatur Of Ahnaf
This is not the kind of Ijma and Tawatur that has been discussed in the context of Sunnah. In order to meet the condition of tawatur it must be perpetually transmitted through generations from the very first day by such a large body of people that their conspiring or colluding on a lie becomes near to impossible. Ijma refers to consensus of the Muslims’ Knowledge (‘ Musalmanon kai ilm ka ijma ‘) which has been incorporated in ‘Fiqh Books‘ throughout the generations. Ijma/Tawatur developed on Ahad ( individual reports ) later at some time is not the ijma we use for religion. There should be no Ahad in that chain of transmission to be classified as Ijma/Tawatur. As far as Sajda-e-Sehav in Hanafi Fiqh is concerned, there is no such tawatur as mentioned in the question above, early Hanafis such as Abu Haneefah and Abu Yoosuf differed with the later ones on that issue. Abu Haneefah and Abu Yoosuf maintained that the praying person should invoke blessings and peace upon the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam in the first sitting for tashahhud (before Tasleem), whereas Muhammad (ibn Al-Hasan) held that the praying person should invoke blessings and peace upon the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam in the second sitting after performing the two sujood as-sahw; that is because Abu Haneefah and Abu Yoosuf maintained that the tasleem marks the end of the prayer according to their scholarly view; therefore, they considered the first sitting before sujood as-sahw as the one concluding the prayer, in which the praying person should invoke the blessings and peace upon the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam and recite the reported supplication so that he would conclude his prayer after completing the due pillars, acts of Sunnah, and recommended acts in the reported manner. It says in Al-Mufeed that this is the most correct view in this regard. Muhammad (ibn Al-Hasan), on the other hand, held another opinion that this sitting is not the one concluding and ending the prayer and that the praying person should invoke the blessings and peace upon the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam and recite the reported supplication in the second sitting after sujood as-sahw, for such a sitting is the one that concludes the prayer in this case. As far as Ahadith are concerned, we do find a few narrations supporting current Ahnaf viewpoint to some extent, for instance, see the following narration: https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:395 ____________________________ Same goes for women’s way of prostration : there is no such tawatur. https://youtu.be/a2KyB9ZiXPE