Is it prescribed to raise the hands in the funeral prayer with every takbir?
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The questioner : May the Shaykh tell us, is it permissible for us to raise our hands in the takbir of the funeral prayer?
The Shaykh : Perhaps the questioner means, “Is it prescribed for us?” We say, yes, it is prescribed for a person to raise his hands in the takbir of the funeral prayer with every takbir. This is because it is authentically reported from Ibn 'Umar as a mawquf report, and indeed, it is authentically reported from him as a marfu' report according to some scholars. As for the one who says that one does not raise the hands except in the first takbir, his statement is weak because he considered the marfu' hadith of Ibn 'Umar to be weak. We say that even if the marfu' report were weak, this is an act of worship that Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) could not have performed without being instructed to do so. Therefore, his action has the ruling of a marfu' report, because it is well known among the scholars of hadith that whatever a Companion said or did in a matter where there is no room for independent legal reasoning has the ruling of a marfu' report. Accordingly, what is prescribed for a person is to raise his hands with every takbir of the funeral prayer.
The Shaykh : Perhaps the questioner means, “Is it prescribed for us?” We say, yes, it is prescribed for a person to raise his hands in the takbir of the funeral prayer with every takbir. This is because it is authentically reported from Ibn 'Umar as a mawquf report, and indeed, it is authentically reported from him as a marfu' report according to some scholars. As for the one who says that one does not raise the hands except in the first takbir, his statement is weak because he considered the marfu' hadith of Ibn 'Umar to be weak. We say that even if the marfu' report were weak, this is an act of worship that Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) could not have performed without being instructed to do so. Therefore, his action has the ruling of a marfu' report, because it is well known among the scholars of hadith that whatever a Companion said or did in a matter where there is no room for independent legal reasoning has the ruling of a marfu' report. Accordingly, what is prescribed for a person is to raise his hands with every takbir of the funeral prayer.