المُصافَحَة

SHAKING HANDS

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2– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Shake hands with each other for verily the handshake takes away resentment.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 158, no. 149]

3– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Shake hands with each other for verily it takes away rancour.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 165, no. 2]

4– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When a man shakes his companion’s hand, the one who holds on the longest has the greater reward than the one who lets go. Indeed sins fall off from between them
[as a result of it] until finally no sin remains.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 181, no. 13]

5– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) narrated, ‘The
[early] Muslims were such that when they went on conquests with the Prophet (SAWA) and traversed through dense forests, as they would come back out into the open, they would look at each other and shake each other’s hands.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 181, no. 12]

6– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) narrated, ‘When the Prophet (SAWA) used to shake someone’s hand, he would never be the first to let go, until the other person let go of his hand.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 182, no. 15]

7– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Verily I do not shake hands with women.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 475]

8– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘As for any woman whom one can marry
[i.e. not one’s immediate relative], one must not shake her hand except from under a cloth, nor clasp her palm.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 525, no. 1]