This commentary explores the scholarly discussion on Rafʿ al-Yadayn—raising the hands during prayer. Drawing from Maẓāhir al-Ḥaqq Sharḥ Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, it presents the differing views of the Ḥanafī and Shāfiʿī schools, the evidences of the Ṣaḥābah, and Imām Abū Ḥanīfah’s ʳʰ juristic reasoning behind limiting the gesture to the opening takbīr taḥrīmah.
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