Sunan Abu Dawud Hadith 741

When he began prayer, he uttered the takbir ( Allah is most great) and raised his hands; and when he bowed ( he raised his hands); and when he said: “Allah listens to him who praises Him, ” (he raised his hands); and when he stood up at the end of two rak’ahs, he raised his hands. He (Ibn Umar رضی اللہ عنہما ) traced that back to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. Abu Dawud said: What is correct is that the tradition reported by Ibn Umar رضی اللہ عنہما does not go back to the Prophet (may peace beupon him). Abu Dawud said: The narrator Baqiyyah reported the first part of this tradition from Ubaid Allah and traced it back to the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم; and the narrator al-Thaqafi reported it from Ubaid Allah as a statement of Ibn Umar himself (not from the Porphet). In this version he said: When he stood at the end of two rak’ahs he raised them up to his breasts. And this is the correct version. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted as a statement of Ibn Umar رضی اللہ عنہما (and not of the Prophet) by al-Laith bin Saad, Malik, Ayyub, and Ibn Juraij; and this has been narrated as a statement of the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم by Hammad bin Salamah alone on the authority of Ayyub. Ayyub and Malik did not mention his raising of hands when he stood after two prostrations, but al-Laith mentioned it in his version. Ibn Juraij said in this version: I asked Nafi: Did Ibn Umar رضی اللہ عنہما raise (his hands) higher for the first time? He said: No, I said: Point out to me. He then pointed to the breasts or lower than that.