Is Doing Rafa Yadein Compulsory?
Salah is not transmitted through individual narrations, it is transmitted through Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (sws) via ijma and tawatur of Muslims throughout the generations. What we find in hadith corpus is uswa-e-hasna of the Prophet (sws), which is neither compulsory, nor does it ensure that those acts have a permanent nature always. Please go through the following videos to grasp a better understanding of how Ghamidi Sahab has understood this point: Discussion 37566 Discussion 28576 • Reply 28687 Discussion 47454 • Reply 47800 There is no basis of this myth that Rafadain was being done initially as a control measure to expose idols in the armpits. If that were the case, first rafadain to begin Salah would’ve sufficed already.