SLEEPING ON THE TUMMY

Prohibition of SLEEPING ON THE TUMMY… A medical reason??

It was narrated from Qais bin Tihfah Al-Ghifari that his father said:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) found me sleeping in the masjid on my stomach.

He nudged me with his foot and said: “Why are you sleeping like this? This is a kind of sleep that Allah dislikes, or that Allah hates.”

[Sunan Ibn Majah, Book of Etiquette, Hadith: 3723]

Chapter: Prohibition of lying’s on one’s face
Grade: Sahih
Medical reason that we should not sleep on our stomach.

When you sleep on your stomach it gets squeezed and than your food along with gastric juices (acid and enzymes) resurges into esophagous and develops acidity and If this acidity develops again and again and for longer duration. The lining of esophagous gets infected which can than convert into Esophageal or Gastric Cancer.

Secondly when you sleep on you stomach it makes natural curve of your spine straight which inturn causes lower back pain and sometimes Disc Prolapse or Sciatica.