Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: When the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for prayer, he would say the takbeer and raise both hands up to the shoulders. When he completed his recitation and was about to go into ruku, he would do the same. When he rose from ruku, he would do the same. After that, he would not raise his hands during the prayer, except when he was sitting; when he stood up after performing two rak‘ahs, then at that time he would again raise his hands in the same way and say the takbeer.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: When the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for prayer, he would raise both his hands until they were level with his shoulders, then he would say the takbeer. Then, when he was about to go into ruku‘, he would do the same, and when he raised his head from ruku‘, he would do the same. However, when he raised his head from sajdah, he would not do so.

Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father, Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): When the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for prayer, he would raise both his hands until they were in line with his shoulders, then he would say the takbir. When he was about to go into bowing (ruku‘), he would raise both his hands until they were in line with his shoulders, then he would go into ruku‘. When he would rise from ruku‘, he would raise both his hands until they were in line with his shoulders, then he would recite“Sami‘ Allahu liman hamidah,”then proceed to prostration (sujud). Between the prostrations, he would not raise his hands. Throughout the entire prayer, whenever he would say the takbir while going into ruku‘, he would raise his hands.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: I saw the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he stood up for prayer, he raised both his hands until they were in line with his shoulders, then he said the takbeer. He did the same when he raised his head from bowing (ruku) and said "Sami' Allahu liman hamidah," but he did not do this when he raised his head from prostration (sajdah).

This narration from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) is also present with another chain of transmission, and in it are these words: He raised his hands and then said the takbeer.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: When the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for prayer, he would raise both his hands until they were level with his shoulders, and (at the same time) he would say the takbeer (Allahu Akbar). (The rest of the hadith is as previously mentioned.)

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to raise both his hands until they would be at the level of his shoulders or close to it (after that he narrated the hadith as previously mentioned).

The same narration is transmitted from Zuhri with another chain, in which these words are present: When the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) began the prayer with the opening takbir, he would raise both hands at the time he was saying the takbir, until both hands reached the level of his shoulders (after this, the narration continues as previously mentioned).

Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for prayer, he would raise both hands up to the shoulders and say the takbeer. When he was about to go into ruku, he would raise his hands up to the shoulders and say the takbeer, then go into ruku. When he would raise his head from ruku, he would raise both hands up to the shoulders, then recite“Sami’ Allahu liman hamidah,”then go into prostration. Between the prostrations, he would not raise his hands. In every rak’ah, he would raise his hands while saying the takbeer, until the prayer was completed.

Nafi' reports: Whenever Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) saw a person who did not raise his hands while bowing in prayer, he would pick up pebbles to throw at him until that person started raising his hands.