The Book of Friday Prayer, the Two Festivals, the Prayer for Rain, the Eclipse Prayer, and Funerals-04b

The reciter: Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, Ibn Abi 'Adi and 'Abd al-A'la narrated to us from Sa'id from Qatadah from Anas, . Except that 'Abd al-A'la said:

The Shaykh : This hadith contains two points of difficulty. The first difficulty is that he said: Then some of them generalized and said: if one supplicates for the bringing of a benefit, one places the palms of the hands facing the sky, and if one supplicates for the removal of a harm, one places the palms of the hands facing the ground and the backs of the hands toward the sky. Then he provided a reason, stating that the backs of the hands are placed toward the sky because evil is being repelled, so the back of the hand is stronger and more forceful, as if he preferred supplication with the backs of the hands. However, Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) rejected all of that and said: supplication is a request and a plea, and the custom of the one who requests and pleads is to extend his palms open: , but due to the intensity of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) raising of his hands in the prayer for rain, the observer of them, meaning the palms, sees them as if they are inverted toward the sky. This is the answer to the difficulty in his statement: . The second difficulty: he says: Otherwise, it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he raised his hands in more than thirty places, which some of the commentators have listed in this regard.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to raise his hands at al-Safa and on al-Marwah, and at 'Arafah, and at the two pillars, and in many other places. So the intention of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) is: , meaning in the sermon. So it is a general statement intended to mean a specific one. The Arabic language is broad, and in many instances, a general statement is used to mean a specific one. With this, the difficulty is resolved. We also say that in the hadith of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated in the sermon in the prayer for rain. When? In the Friday sermon, when the man came to him and said: O Messenger of Allah, the wealth has been destroyed and the buildings have collapsed, so call upon Allah to turn it away from us. He said: O Allah, around us and not upon us. This is in the two Sahihs. And on this basis, this generality is not absolute.