How does one raise his hands when he makes the qunut in the witr after bowing?

Question : But how does he raise his hands?

Answer : The scholars said that he raises his hands to his chest. He does not raise them very high, because this supplication is not a supplication of intense pleading (ibtihal) in which a person exaggerates the raising of his hands. Rather, he raises them to his chest because it is a supplication of desire (raghabah). He raises them to his chest and spreads his hands like this, with the backs of his hands facing the sky, as our scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said. The apparent meaning of the words of the scholars of knowledge is that he brings his hands together, one to the other, like the state of a beggar who asks another to give him something. As for some people who spread them apart like this, I do not know any basis for this, neither in the Sunnah nor in the words of the scholars.