ihram, and the beginning of his raising should be at the beginning of his takbir, and its end at its end. This is the view held by Ibn Umar, Ibn Abbas, Jabir, Abu Hurayrah, Ibn al-Zubayr, Anas, al-Hasan, Ata', Tawus, Mujahid, Salim, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, and others among the Tabi'un. It is also the school of Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Shafi'i, Ishaq, and Malik in one of the two narrations from him. Al-Thawri and Abu Hanifah said: He does not raise his hands except at the opening (of the prayer). This is also the view of Ibrahim al-Nakha'i, due to what was narrated from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, that he said: Shall I not pray the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) for you? (1) So he prayed and did not raise his hands except at the first time (2). Al-Tirmidhi said: The hadith of Ibn Mas'ud is hasan. Yazid ibn Ziyad narrated from Ibn Abi Layla, from al-Bara' ibn 'Azib, that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) used to raise his hands when he opened the prayer, then he would not repeat it (3). They said: Acting upon these two hadiths is more appropriate, because Ibn Mas'ud was a jurist, a constant companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), knowledgeable of his states, and his internal and external affairs, so his narration is prioritized over the narration of one whose state was not like his. Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said to a man who narrated the hadith of Wa'il ibn Hujr (4): Perhaps Wa'il did not pray with the Prophet (peace be upon him) except for that one prayer. Do you see that we should abandon the narration of Abdullah, who perhaps never missed a prayer with the Prophet (peace be upon him), and accept the narration of this one? Or as he said. Our evidence is what al-Zuhri narrated from Salim, from his father, who said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), when he opened the prayer, raise his hands until they were parallel (5) to his shoulders, and when he intended to bow, and after he raised his head from bowing, but he would not do that during prostration (6). Al-Bukhari said: Ali ibn al-Madini said — and he was the most knowledgeable of his time —: It is a duty upon the Muslims to raise their hands for this hadith.