Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
I know the toes need to be placed on the ground during prostration, but not so long back I read a Hanafi Fiqh text that stated that the toes must be bent and must face the Qibla also. Is this correct?
Al-Salam alaykum
Yes. That is the sunnah method.
Abu Usamah
Response from Sidi Faraz
Walaikum assalam,
Just so build on Mawlana Abu Usamah’s answer:
That one toe of one foot touch the ground during prostration is fard; that one toe from both feet do so is wajib. Pointing the bottom of the toes towards the qibla is a confirmed sunna. [As mentioned by al-Tahtawi and by Ibn Abidin]
Leaving a sunna is blameworthy, and if done repeatedly without an excuse, it is sinful.
Wassalam,
Faraz.