The Hanafi position includes the knee but excludes the navel. The Shafi‘i position treats both as boundary markers, while also requiring coverage of the area between them.
The dispute concerns the exact boundaries and how the textual evidence marks their inclusion. Under the Hanafi ruling, exposing the knee leaves the required covering incomplete.
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Conditions of Prayer: Purity, Covering, Intention and Qiblah
The Hanafi position includes the knee but excludes the navel. The Shafi‘i position treats both as boundary markers, while also requiring coverage of the area between them.
The dispute concerns the exact boundaries and how the textual evidence marks their inclusion. Under the Hanafi ruling, exposing the knee leaves the required covering incomplete.