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4. Raising your hands
"Although, prayer is valid without raising your hands during prayer. It’s obviously more rewarding if you wish to do it (as part of getting closer to sunnah) and become the forerunner to achieve a greater good."
4. Raising your hands
"Although, prayer is valid without raising your hands during prayer. It’s obviously more rewarding if you wish to do it (as part of getting closer to sunnah) and become the forerunner to achieve a greater good."
Allah says, And the forerunners, the forerunners. Those are the ones brought near [to Allāh] – Surah al-Waqi’a 56:10-11
Practising Rafa’ yadain (literally means raising of two hands) during salaah is a sunnah reported in many ahaadiths.
Practising Rafa’ yadain (literally means raising of two hands) during salaah is a sunnah reported in many ahaadiths.
Narrated Salim bin ‘Abdullah:
My father said, “Allāh’s Apostle used to raise both his hands up to the level of his shoulders when opening the prayer, and on saying the Takbir for bowing, and on raising his head from bowing he used to do the same and then say
My father said, “Allāh’s Apostle used to raise both his hands up to the level of his shoulders when opening the prayer, and on saying the Takbir for bowing, and on raising his head from bowing he used to do the same and then say
“Sami a-l-lahu Liman hamida, Rabbana walaka-l-hamd.”, and he did not do that (i.e. raising his hands) in prostrations. – [Bukhari & Muslim]
Similar hadīth has also been narrated `Ali ibn Abi Talib. He said,
When the Messenger of Allāh stood for offering the obligatory prayer,
Similar hadīth has also been narrated `Ali ibn Abi Talib. He said,
When the Messenger of Allāh stood for offering the obligatory prayer,
he uttered the takbir (Allāhu Akbar) and raised his hands opposite to his shoulders; and he did like that when he finished recitation (of the Qur’ān) and was about to bow; and he did like that when he rose after bowing; and he did not raise his hands in his prayer while he was in
his sitting position.
When he stood up from his prostrations (at the end of two rak’ahs), he raised his hands likewise and uttered the takbir and raised his hands so as to bring them up to his shoulders, as he uttered the takbir at the beginning of the prayer. – Abu Dawood
When he stood up from his prostrations (at the end of two rak’ahs), he raised his hands likewise and uttered the takbir and raised his hands so as to bring them up to his shoulders, as he uttered the takbir at the beginning of the prayer. – Abu Dawood
