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Women Shaking Hands with Women: is it an Innovation?

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani


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QUESTION: Women shaking hands with women: is it an innovation?

ANSWER:

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

No, it is not an innovation. Rather, the scholars explain in their works that shaking hands is a sunna for both men and women, and when the occasion calls for it so is embracing.

It goes without saying that this is between men and men, and women and women only.

And Allah alone gives success.

Wassalam,

Faraz Rabbani




[Source: SunniPath]





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