upon as authentic from Ibn ʿUmar — may Allah be pleased with them both: “The Prophet ﷺ would not raise his hands when he went into prostration.” It was narrated by Mālik, the Two Shaykhs, and the compilers of the Sunan. Al-Bukhārī and al-Nasāʾī have a wording that reads: “He would not do so when he prostrated nor when he lifted his head from prostration.” A version related by al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, and Muslim says: “Nor would he raise them between the two prostrations.” The authors of the Sunan transmit it in this very phrasing, and al-Tirmidhī commented, “A fair and sound hadith.” Muslim also records: “Nor did he do so when he lifted his head from prostration.”

Imām Aḥmad likewise reports in his Musnad — and al-Bukhārī in his monograph on Raising the Hands, as well as Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Dāraquṭnī in their Sunan — from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may Allah ennoble his countenance, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ “did not raise his hands in any part of the prayer while he was seated.” Al-Tirmidhī said, “A fair and sound hadith,” and it was also declared authentic by Aḥmad, al-Bukhārī, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Ḥibbān.

Al-Dāraquṭnī and al-Bayhaqī further narrate, through the chain of Ḥammād ibn Salamah — al-Azraq ibn Qays — Ḥaṭṭān ibn ʿAbd-Allāh — Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: “Shall I show you the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?” He pronounced takbīr and raised his hands, then pronounced takbīr and raised his hands for the bowing, then said, “Allah hears him who praises Him,” and again raised his hands; he then added, “Do likewise, but do not raise them between the two prostrations.”

Numerous sound reports affirm that the Prophet ﷺ would raise his hands when he opened the prayer, when he was about to bow, and when he lifted his head from bowing, and some of them add that he did so when rising after the first tashahhud. All of these agree with the narrations of Ibn ʿUmar, ʿAlī, and Abū Mūsā, may Allah be pleased with them, and they refute