Rifqan Ahlis Sunnah. This and other similar hadeeths contain permission for infants to enter the mosque. I have discussed it in detail and investigated its routes of narration inthe manuscript version and then in Irwaa' alGhaleel no. In this hadeeth there is evidence that grasping is from the sunnah, and in the previous hadeeth that so is placing, so both are sunnah. The order is one of preference, not compulsion, from the evidence which follows.
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