The Places of Raising the Hands at the Takbirs in Prayer

Question:
This questioner, Ibrahim Abdullah, who resides in Riyadh, says: First, I have a set of questions, and I ask that you present them to the Honorable Shaykh Salih. My first question is about raising the hands: at which of the takbirs are the hands raised? May you be rewarded.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, raising the hands at the takbir in prayer
is a confirmed sunnah (recommended practice), and this occurs in four places. The first place is at the takbir of entering prayer, the second place is at the bowing, the third place is when one stands up from the bowing, and the fourth place is when one stands up from the first tashahhud (testification). There is scholarly disagreement regarding this last one, whereas raising the hands in the first three places is confirmed due to the establishment of hadiths (reports of the Prophet's words or deeds) regarding it from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), such as the hadith of Ibn Umar and others.