The ruling on raising the hands after the obligatory prayer and wiping the face
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Question:
The questioner says: I have heard a fatwa from you stating that raising the hands for supplication after the obligatory prayer, and wiping them, is a religious innovation (bid'ah) with no basis. But what do you say about what al-Hafiz Ibn al-Sunni reported with his chain of narration that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made supplication after the obligatory prayer and raised his hands in doing so, but there is a weak man in its chain whose name does not come to my mind? Also, what al-Hafiz Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah reported in his Musannaf. He says:
Answer:
Or the imam, or all of them, raise their hands after the obligatory prayer; this has no basis, and it was not in the hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), nor from the Companions. As for a person making supplication between himself and Allah, after the dhikr, making supplication between himself and Allah, there is nothing wrong with that; he makes supplication. But if a person raises his hands after the obligatory prayer when he says the taslim, this has no basis. As for wiping his face, or raising his face, when he makes his supplications at night or during the day, if he wipes his face, there is no blame on him, but leaving it is better; because the authentic hadiths do not include wiping, it only came in hadiths that contain weakness. So if he does it sometimes, there is nothing wrong with it, and if he leaves it, that is better.
The questioner says: I have heard a fatwa from you stating that raising the hands for supplication after the obligatory prayer, and wiping them, is a religious innovation (bid'ah) with no basis. But what do you say about what al-Hafiz Ibn al-Sunni reported with his chain of narration that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made supplication after the obligatory prayer and raised his hands in doing so, but there is a weak man in its chain whose name does not come to my mind? Also, what al-Hafiz Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah reported in his Musannaf. He says:
Answer:
Or the imam, or all of them, raise their hands after the obligatory prayer; this has no basis, and it was not in the hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), nor from the Companions. As for a person making supplication between himself and Allah, after the dhikr, making supplication between himself and Allah, there is nothing wrong with that; he makes supplication. But if a person raises his hands after the obligatory prayer when he says the taslim, this has no basis. As for wiping his face, or raising his face, when he makes his supplications at night or during the day, if he wipes his face, there is no blame on him, but leaving it is better; because the authentic hadiths do not include wiping, it only came in hadiths that contain weakness. So if he does it sometimes, there is nothing wrong with it, and if he leaves it, that is better.
Source
فتاوى الحج - 1405 هـ — archive.org (49:13)
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