Is clasping the hands and interlacing the fingers an act of Satan outside of prayer and the mosque?
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Placing the right hand over the left in prayer is a Sunnah. Interlacing the fingers during prayer is forbidden. As for placing one hand over the other on the chest or interlacing the fingers outside of prayer, the default ruling for this is permissibility.
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