Question
Does yawning in prayer invalidate the prayer?
Answer
Yawning doesn’t invalidate the prayer but should try their best to suppress the yawn, and by placing their hand over the mouth if necessary.
Imam Ahmed Rida Khan (رحمة الله عليه) in al-Malfooz states, “Whilst standing in prayer, the back of the right palm should be placed on the mouth (when yawning) and in other arkaans (positions), the back of the left palm should be placed over the mouth.”
The Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم) said, “Yawning is from Satan and if anyone of you yawns, he should check his yawning as much as possible, for if anyone of you (during the act of yawning) should say: ‘Ha’, Satan will laugh at him.”
[Bukhari Book 59, Hadith 98]
Ibn Abbas said, “When someone yawns, he should place his hand over his mouth. Yawning comes from Shaytan.”
[Al-Adabul Mufrad Book 40, Hadith 950]
Allah knows best.
Answered by Mawlana Mohammed Kashif
Published by the Dar-ul-Ifta of Akhuwat-e-Islami as Q-ID0125. Read it on Akhuwat-e-Islami