Chapter 340
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 340
Raising the hands in du‘ā’ and passing them over the face
Context
WE RELATE FROM the book of at-Tirmidhī that ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
reported that when the Messenger of Allah
raised his hands in du‘ā’ he did not lower them until he had wiped them over his face. [1].
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.