If the imam does not raise his hands during the prayer for rain when making supplication, is it prescribed for the one praying behind him to raise his hands?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, the imam of our mosque does not raise his hands during the prayer for rain when making supplication, nor in the Friday sermon when he asks for rain. Does the one praying behind him raise his hands or not? This imam is ignorant of the Sunnah, but the one praying behind him, regarding whom it is reported that he raises his hands following the imam,

Answer:
raises his hands following the imam. However, this imam should be informed that it is the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to raise his hands in the supplication for rain, and to raise them high until the whiteness of his armpits is visible, in the Friday sermon and in the prayer for rain. After the prayer for rain, this strange imam should be warned that some of the self-proclaimed scholars nowadays are putting forth opinions from themselves and independent legal reasoning from themselves, and we fear that over time they will change the entire religion. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. It is obligatory for the one who fears Allah to know his own standing and not to put forth an opinion that has not preceded him, even if he is a scholar. He should not put forth an opinion that has not preceded him, so how much more so if he is ignorant or a self-proclaimed scholar? Because this causes the loss of the religion, and these erroneous independent legal reasonings take its place, and people come to think they are part of the religion later on, and he is the one who bears that burden.