According to another tradition...

According to another tradition, if a person visits a house, he should sit where the master of the house asks him to, as he is aware of the virtues and faults of his own house. Hazrat Ali (a.s.) has stated that one should never sit on a public highway.' In another tradition he (a.s.) has stated that when one is sitting among people, one should never sit with open legs.

According to Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.), if a person feels happy to sit at a place which is below his honour, then God and His angels will send durood on him as long as he is thus seated. A tradition from Imam Ja'far-e-Sadiq (a.s.) states that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) always used to sit facing Qibla.

In another tradition he (a.s.) has stated that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) used to sit in three ways - at times his knees used to be above the ground and his hands around his knees with the palm of one interlocked in the palm of the other. At other times he used to sit as one sits during prayers with knees bent on the ground and hands kept on the knees. He also used to sit by placing one foot over other; but he never used to sit all spread out…