In Islam, Raising hands in Dua ( ar, رفع اليدين في الدعاء) is the action of using hands to invoke Allah in

dua In Islam, ( ar, دعاء , plural: ' ) is a prayer of invocation, supplication or request, even asking help or assistance from God. Role in Islam Muslims regard this as a profound act of worship. Muhammad is reported to have said ...

The view of limitation

Many scholars including especially Salafis limit this practice. According to them, basing on a lack of hadiths for other instances, with a fully authenticated chain, the practice of raising hands is specific to irregular prayers for needs and the Qunut of the Witr/Fajr prayers. This view excludes the practice of regularly raising the hands as sunnah and a

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act of

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after fardh salah accompanying a dua. These scholars however do recognize raising hands during a dua not done after salah, accepting that the Muslim should raise his hands with

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to Allah in the way instructed by the Prophet

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A few cases of ''Raising the hands in Dua'' being regarded as a forbidden innovation (

Bidʻah In Islam, bid'ah ( ar, بدعة; en, innovation) refers to innovation in religious matters. Linguistically, the term means "innovation, novelty, heretical doctrine, heresy". In classical Arabic literature ('' adab''), it has been used as a fo ...

) are: * Salah (except for Qunut) *

Khutbah ''Khutbah'' ( ar, خطبة ''khuṭbah'', tr, hutbe) serves as the primary formal occasion for public preaching in the Islamic tradition. Such sermons occur regularly, as prescribed by the teachings of all legal schools. The Islamic traditio ...

(in specific cases) *

Tawaf The Kaaba (, ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah ( ar, ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, lit=Honored Ka'bah, links=no, translit=al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah), is a building at the c ...

* Sa'iye *

Ruku Rukūʿ ( ar, رُكوع, ) can refer to either of two things in Islam: * The act of belt-low bowing in standardized prayers, where the backbone should be in rest, before straightening up to go for sujud (full earth-low bowing). * A paragr ...

* * Sujud *

Sitting in salah Sitting or kneeling ( ar, جِلسة and , also and ) is an integral part of salah, or Islamic prayer, along with bowing ( ruku' and sujud). Manners of sitting or kneeling Three styles of sitting/kneeling have been reported in the hadiths (acc ...

The view encouraging hand-raising after salah

Some scholars, while agreeing with not raising hands in Sujud, etc. extend its scope of application. Many such scholars hold the view of praiseworthiness of consistently praying dua after fardh Salah with hands raised, as a Sunnah action. For example, according to Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi there is no room for debate: "there around hadiths transmitted in support of this. One finds in Tirmidhi: “In the ritual prayer you beg. You are wretched and your are humble, and at the end you raise hands and exclaim “Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord!” Without this the prayer is a miscarriage” And this is manifestly true, being attested by a clear report. In the report they have established what the Messenger, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, did and ordered, and what he said about raising one’s hands."

Types

There are two ways to raise the hands to perform the

Dua In Islam, ( ar, دعاء , plural: ' ) is a prayer of invocation, supplication or request, even asking help or assistance from God. Role in Islam Muslims regard this as a profound act of worship. Muhammad is reported to have said ...

: # With both hands. # With just one

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: This was done when Muhammad was giving advices, when he was performing a

on the minbar, and during

Tashahhud The ''Tashahhud'' ( ar, تَشَهُّد, meaning "testimony faith]"), also known as at-Tahiyyat ( ar, ٱلتَّحِيَّات, lit=greetings, link=no), is the portion of the Salah, Muslim prayer where the person Sitting in salah, kneels or sits ...

. A third type of hand-raising is used in the ritual prayer, for example in the beginning, accompanying the Takbir al-Ihram, but this is considered outside the domain of dua.

Gallery

File:Supplicating Pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram. Mecca, Saudi Arabia.jpg, Raising hands in Dua. File:Young Muslim spplicating in Masjid al-Haram, 6 April 2015.jpg, Raising hands in Dua. File:Muslim man at prayer.jpg, Raising hands in Dua. File:Imam Khalid dua.jpg, Raising hands in Dua.

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