Is it prescribed to raise the hands in supplication when mounting a ride and when traveling?

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Question:
May Allah reward you. We are still with you live on air. He asks, Shaykh, about raising the hands in the supplication for travel, entering the home, and mounting a beast of burden. Is it prescribed?

Answer:
I do not know that it is prescribed, but supplication upon travel is something that Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) has commanded, as He said:

and has made for you of ships and animals those which you mount. ⁽¹³⁾ That you may settle yourselves upon their backs and then remember the favor of your Lord when you have settled upon them and say. "Exalted is He who has subjected this to us, and we could not have [otherwise] subdued it. ⁽¹⁴⁾ And indeed we, to our Lord

وَجَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ الْفُلْكِ وَالْأَنْعَامِ مَا تَرْكَبُونَ لِتَسْتَوُوا عَلَىٰ ظُهُورِهِ ثُمَّ تَذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ رَبِّكُمْ إِذَا اسْتَوَيْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ وَتَقُولُوا سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَٰذَا وَمَا كُنَّا لَهُ مُقْرِنِينَ وَإِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا

[Az-Zukhruf 43:12-14]

to whom will you return, and in the hadith:

O Allah, You are the Companion in the journey and the Guardian of the family. O Allah, make this journey easy for us and grant us success thereafter. O Allah, we seek refuge in You from the hardship of the journey, the sadness of the appearance, and the badness of the return in wealth and family. O Allah

اللهم أنت الصاحب في السفر والخليفة في الأهل، اللهم هون علينا سفرنا هذا واطيعنا بعده، اللهم إنا نعوذ بك من وعثاء السفر وكآبة المنظر وسوء المنقلب في المال والأهل، اللهم

Make this journey easy for us and bless us in what comes after it. One supplicates with this du'a, and I do not know that the hands are raised in it, because this requires evidence. Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1855 - هل يشرع رفع اليدين في الدعاء عند الركوب وعند السفر - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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