Raising the Hands upon Returning to the Standing Position
After the rukūʿ, the praying person should raise his head, straighten his back, and return to the standing position. He should then raise his hands until they are adjacent to his shoulders; the same manner observed when performing the takbīrat al-iḥrām at the beginning of the ṣalāh. Raising the hands after standing from rukūʿ has been authentically narrated from the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) in ‘al-Ṣāḥīḥayn (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) and others on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar (رضي الله عنهما) that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) would…
