(5/187) — In the narration of Abū Ḥumayd al-Sāʿidī, related in the presence of ten of the Prophet’s Companions describing the prayer of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, they reported that when he rose after the two rakʿahs he pronounced the takbīr and raised his hands until they were level with his shoulders.

Al-Khaṭṭābī said: “This is an authentic ḥadith, and a number of scholars of ḥadith have followed it. Acting upon it is required by the principle that an additional wording transmitted by a trustworthy narrator is to be accepted.”

Ibn Daqīq stated in Sharḥ al-ʿUmda: “The raising of the hands when standing up after the two rakʿahs is firmly established.”

Al-Bayhaqī said: “This is the position of al-Shāfiʿī, for he said, ‘If the ḥadith is authentic, that is my school.’ Hence al-Nawawī quoted it from al-Shāfiʿī’s own words, affirmed that it is found in the Ṣaḥīḥ, and discussed the matter at length in Sharḥ al-Muhadhdhab.”

Shaykh al-Islām said: “Raising the hands at this point is recommended according to the leading scholars who adhere to the sunnah; it is established in the authentic collections and the Sunan, and it faces no opposing evidence. This was the preferred view of the Shaykh, his grandfather, and the author of al-Fāʾiq; it is favored in al-Furūʿ and al-Mubdiʿ and deemed correct in al-Insāf. It is also the sounder of the two reports from Aḥmad.”