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Is there anything sound regarding men embracing three times?

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Embracing is prescribed for someone returning from a journey and the like, and disliked otherwise. What is apparent from the hadiths is that it occurs once, and there is no harm in increasing it as long as there is no exaggeration or adherence to a specific number not mentioned in the Sharia.

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