I say: al-Haafidh did not say in {ad-Diraayah}, "so look into it's isnaad", rather he said, "and this is mursal, and in it's isnaad also is someone who should be looked into." And al-Haafidh spoke about this hadeeth from two perspectives: Firstly, that it is mursal, and the mursal hadeeth according to the strongest opinion is not a proof. And secondly, that in it's isnaad is one who should be looked into, so every one who claims this isnaad to be authentic then it is upon him that he establishes the condition of every man in it's sanad to be trustworthy, acceptable to be relied upon, and that it is linked.

And as for the claim of negligence on the part of the author (az-Zaylai) over Muhammad Abu Yahya, and after that accepting the authenticity of the narration, then it does not necessitate the authenticity of the sanad of the hadeeth, for in it is one whose state is not known in the books of Rijaal.

And they seek evidence also from the hadeeth of Jaabir bin Samurah who said,"I went out with the Messenger of Allaah and he said, 'what is the matter that I see you raise/move your hands as if they were the tails of headstrong horses. Be calm in your prayer." (Muslim)

And the answer is, that there is not in it an evidence for forbidding raising of the hands at specific places in the prayer and at specific times, and that is at the ruku and rising from it. Because it is a summary of a long hadeeth, and the clarification of that is that Muslim also narrates from Jaabir bin Samurah who said, "when we said prayer with the Messenger of Allaah we said the tasleem and gestured with our hands on both sides. Upon this the Messenger said, 'why do I see you moving your hands as if they were tails of headstrong horses. It is enough for you that one should place ones hand on ones thigh and then pronounce tasleem to the brother on ones right and left'", and in a narration, "when one of you says the tasleem then he should only turn his face towards his companion and not gesture with his hands."

And ibn Hibbaan said,

'mentioning the (full) narration is necessary to explain the previously mentioned summarised narration because the people were commanded with tranquility in prayer at the point of indicating at the tasleem, not the raising which is established at ruku.' Then he narrates the likes of what Muslim narrates.

al-Bukhaaree said,

'the one who depends upon the hadeeth of Jaabir bin Samurah for forbidding the raising of hands at ruku, then there is not for him a portion of knowledge, for this is well-known, having no difference of opinion over it that it was in the state of tashahhud' [as quoted in {Talkhees }]

az-Zaylai said in {Nasb ar-Raayah}, after mentioning the hadeeth of Jaabir bin Samurah summarised,

'and Imaam Bukhaaree objects (to this claim) in his book which he wrote about raising of hands, "as for the depending of some people who have no knowledge of the hadeeth of Tameem bin Tarfu from Jaabir bin Samurah [and he mentioned the summarised hadeeth, then the full version]....and if it were as they believe, then the raising of hands in the Eed prayer would also be forbidden, because the hadeeth does not specify one raising from another, but it is general."' [End]

az-Zaylai then said,

'and (it is possible) for the sayer to say: "that the ahaadeeth do not explain one another, as there occurs in the wording of one hadeeth, 'be calm in prayer', and the one who raises his hands at tasleem, it is not said to him, "be calm IN prayer", but it is said to the one who raises his hands at specific places in prayer, and that is in the state of ruku and sujood and the likes of this. This is what is obvious, and the narrator relates the first hadeeth at a time as he bears witness to, and narrates the second hadeeth at another time (in) prayer as he bears witness to. And their is no farfetchedness in that.' [End]

I say: az-Zaylai does not reply to the saying of al-Bukhaaree, "if it were as they believe, then the raising of hands in the takbeers of Eed would also be forbidden", so the reply he gives to this is the reply we give to raising of hands before and after ruku.

As for his saying, "the one who raises his hands at tasleem is not said to him, 'be calm in prayer'" then that is forbidden, rather the one who raises his hands before completing and turning away from the prayer is in the prayer, even if it is at the time of the first or second tasleem, it is said to him, "be calm in prayer". Do you not see that Abdullaah bin Zubair saw a man raising his hands to make du'a before he left the prayer, so when he completed the prayer he said, "the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu `alaihi wasallam) did not raise his hands until he had completed his prayer" related by at-Tabaraanee and it's narrators are trustworthy. So think on this.