Chapter 340

Raising the hands in du‘ā’ and passing them over the face

Remembrance 1
WE RELATE FROM the book of at-Tirmidhī that ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Honorific symbol reported that when the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol raised his hands in du‘ā’ he did not lower them until he had wiped them over his face. [1].
We relate in the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd that ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Abbās Honorific symbol also related a similar hadith, and in the isnād of both of them there is some weakness.
Although Ḥāfiẓ ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq, may Allah be merciful to him, stated that at-Tirmidhī considered the former ṣaḥīḥ, it is not said in any of the reliable manuscript copies of at-Tirmidhī that it is ṣaḥīḥ. On the contrary, he said that it was a gharīb hadith.

References

[1] At-Tirmidhī (283), Abū Dāwūd (1485), and Ibn Mājah (3866). Ibn Ḥajar writes in Bulūgh al-marām that this hadith is ḥasan, thanks to other narrations which support it.