“Whoever raises his hands in ruku (bowing) has no prayer!” Shaykh Ali al-Qari states in his Mawduat (pp. 81, 129): “Fabricated; forged by Muhammad b. Ukasha al-Kirmani—may Allah disgrace him.” In reply to this there is another report: “Everything has an adornment, and the adornment of prayer is raising the hands at every takbir….” Al-Hakim narrated it (2/538), and through him al-Bayhaqi (2/74) and others, from Israil b. Hatim, from Muqatil b. Hayyan, from al-Asbagh b. Nubata, from Ali, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Hakim remained silent about it, but al-Bayhaqi declared it weak. Al-Dhahabi said: “Israil relates oddities and is unreliable; Asbagh is a Shi‘i transmitter abandoned by al-Nasa i.” Ibn al-Jawzi likewise placed it in his Mawduat, calling it fabricated; al-Suyuti echoed this in al-Laali (2/11), adding: “Hafiz Ibn Hajar, in his verification, judged its chain very weak.” The matter did not stop there; it even reached the point of distorting the meaning of the Quran. Hear what Abu al-Hasanat al-Lakhnawi records in al-Taliq al-Mumajjad (p. 92): “The author of al-Kanz al-Madfun wa-l-Fulk al-Mashhun said: I saw a book by one of the Hanafi shaykhs listing disputed issues; one of its curiosities was adducing as proof for omitting the raising of the hands during the movements of prayer the verse, ‘Have you not seen those to whom it was said, “Restrain your hands and establish the prayer”’ (Q 4:77)! I kept relating this in astonishment to our companions until I came upon in Tafsir al-Tha‘labi something that makes this great oddity seem small; namely,