his companions. He said: "I know nothing in this regard; because if there were a legislated supplication for it, it would have been transmitted." It is narrated from Ahmad that he does supplicate, and then performs the taslim; because it is a standing position in a prayer, so it contains legislated dhikr, like that which is before the fourth takbir. Ibn Abi Musa and Abu al-Khattab said: He should say: {Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us from the punishment of the Fire} (1). It is also said that he should say: "O Allah, do not deprive us of his reward, and do not lead us astray after him." This disagreement pertains to its recommendability; there is no disagreement in the school that it is not obligatory, and that pausing for a little while after the takbir is legislated. Al-Jawzajani narrated, with his chain of narration from Zayd ibn Arqam, that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—used to perform four takbirs, then say whatever Allah willed, then leave (2). Al-Jawzajani said: "I used to think that (3) this pause was so that the last of the rows would perform the takbir, for if the Imam performed the takbir and then the taslim, I feared that his taslim would be before the last of the rows performed the takbir. If it is like this, then Allah the Almighty is the Grantor of success in it. If it is otherwise, then I am free before Allah the Almighty from interpreting something regarding the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—that he did not intend, or that he intended otherwise."

362 - Issue; He said: (And he raises his hands in every takbir)

The scholars have reached a consensus that the one praying over the deceased raises his hands in the first takbir he performs. Ibn Umar used to raise his hands in every takbir. This was also the view of Salim, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, 'Ata', Qays ibn Abi Hazim, al-Zuhri, Ishaq, Ibn al-Mundhir, al-Awza'i, and al-Shafi'i. Malik, al-Thawri, and Abu Hanifa said: He does not raise his hands except in the first; because every takbir is the place of a rak'ah, and hands are not raised in all rak'ahs. As for our evidence, it is what was narrated from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—used to raise his hands in every takbir (1).