Is it permissible to pray without raising the hands during it?
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Not raising the hands during the takbirat (recitation of 'Allahu Akbar') in prayers does not invalidate the prayer. However, one who omits it misses out on a great good, as raising the hands has been transmitted from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, by twenty-one Companions, including what the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) narrated from Ibn Umar.
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