Al-Dāraqutni likewise recorded the report through Jarīr, Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿUmar al-Wāsiṭī, and Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, all of them narrating from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb.

These mutually supporting chains show that the wording found in Abū Dāwūd’s version which speaks of raising the hands when rising from prostration is anomalous. Allah knows best.

Al-Dāraqutni also transmitted—in his Sunan—by way of Hushaym and Jarīr, from Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: “We went to see Ibrāhīm, and ʿAmr ibn Murrah related to him: ‘We prayed in the mosque of the Ḥaḍramiyyīn, and ʿAlqamah ibn Wāʾil told me, on the authority of his father (may Allah be pleased with him), that he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ raise his hands when he began the prayer, when he bowed, and when he prostrated.’”

Al-Bukhari cited the same narrative in his booklet Raising the Hands, but his version contains no mention of raising the hands at prostration. He wrote: “Musaddad narrated to us; Khālid narrated to us; Ḥuṣayn, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, who said: I entered the mosque of Ḥadramawt and found ʿAlqamah ibn Wāʾil relating from his father (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet ﷺ would raise his hands before bowing.”

Thus the transmissions from ʿAlqamah ibn Wāʾil on the authority of his father differ, as you can see: in Abū Dāwūd’s version the Prophet ﷺ raises his hands when lifting his head from prostration, while in al-Dāraqutni’s version he raises them when going into prostration; yet neither wording appears in the versions of Muslim, al-Bukhari, or al-Nasāʾī.

This shows that the anomalous addition is not reliably preserved. By contrast, the narration of ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb—from his father, from Wāʾil (may Allah be pleased with him)—is free of contradiction, and acting upon it is preferable to acting upon the conflicting versions, especially since ʿĀṣim’s report is corroborated by the narration of Hammām included by Muslim in his Ṣaḥīḥ, the narration of Qays ibn Salīm reported by al-Bukhari and al-Nasāʾī, and by many other sound aḥādīth already cited, soon to be cited, or not cited here. Allah knows best.