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Bismillahi Al-Rahmani Al-Rahim
Raising The Hands Between Prostrations (4) al-salamu `alaykum Another message from GF Haddad concerning the hadiths of raising the hands between prostrations. wa al-salamu `alaykum --musa [message slightly altered to correct formatting] Wa `alaykum as-Salam wa rahmatullah: [...] >I have a book entitled Athar al-Sunan by >Sh. Muhammad ibn Ali al-Nimawi. He was the >student of Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknowi. It is >a collection of Ahadith al-Ahkam. It is a collection specifically used for the Hanafi Madhhab which is strictly against any form of raf` other than at Takbirat al-Ihram and Takbirat al-Qunut in Witr. >In it, there is a section on this very issue. >He narrates 6 hadith on this issue establishing >the practice as valid. He certainly does not establish the practice as valid. The reason he cites these hadiths is as a rhetorical device against the Shafi`is, in reply to their question: Why do you Hanafis not raise the hands before and after ruku` since the hadiths to that effect are sahih? So the author of Athar al-Sunan would have the Hanafis reply: For the same reason you Shafi`is do not raise them between the two sajdas, even though the hadiths to that effect are also sahih! This was stated thus by al-Tahanawi in I`la' al-Sunan also, an expanded Hanafi Sharh on Ahadith al-Ahkam. Such a reasoning is false on two levels. First, the analogy is invalid. Second, the hadiths of raf` before and after ruku` are mutawatir while the hadiths of raf` between the two sajdas are mu`allal. >All of the hadith are sahih or hasan. No. As strong as their chains may seem - and this is the function of `ilm al-mu`allal - there is no sahih nor hasan marfu` hadith mentioning raf` between the two prostrations according to the "Jumhur `Ulama' al-Salaf wal- Khalaf" as stated in Tarh al-Tathrib (2:262). On the contrary, there are marfu` hadiths in the Sahihayn explicitly stating "But not between the two prostrations." (Ibn al-`Iraqi explained that the addition of this detail to the already established fact that raf` is only in three places - Ihram; before ruku`; after ruku` - is for us to know that there is actually a place of raf` besides those three places, namely: after rising for the third rak`a.) >Nimawi then comments that there is not proof for >anyone who says that these are abrogated, There are other reasons for tad`if besides abrogation. Al-Tahawi said this is a shaadhdh riwaya and al- Daraqutni said these riwayas are all mu`allal according to the Jumhur. >except if one is on the position that one should >only raise the hands in the opening takbir of the prayer. I.e. the Shafi`is are wrong unless they become Hanafis on this issue.... No, this is strange reasoning. Raf` is mutawatir in the three places and mu`allal between the two sajdas, period. WAllahu `alam. Hajj Gibril |