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"Assalamu Alaikum,

I read this answer on islamqa.com regarding making dua, I was not aware that theProphet (SAW) didnt make dua raising his hand after making fard salah so would it be

bidah if we did ?

So when can we make dua raising our hands, after sunnah salat or after Wither ornavafel ? Jazak Allah

Question: After fard salat (i.e. after saying salam), some people make Dua while otherssay only Tasbih Fatmi. Some people are adament that making Dua after salat is Bidat.

This is causing some restraint in the cummunity speacially those who follow Imam Abu

Hanifa or Shafai. Can we make dua'a after salat. Can we make dua'a with the imam after

salat alltogether.

Answer: Praise be to Allaah. It says in Fatawa al-Lajnah al-Daaimah: Making duaa

after the obligatory prayers is not Sunnah if it is done by raising the hands, whether that is

done by the imam alone or a member of the congregation alone, or it is done by themboth together. Rather that is bidah, because it was not narrated that the Prophet (peaceand blessings of Allaah be upon him) or any of his companions (may Allaah be pleased

with them) did that. With regard to

making duaa without doing that (raising the hands etc.), there is nothing wrong with it,because there are some ahaadeeth concerning

that. Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daaimah, 7/103 The Committee was asked about raising the

hands for duaa after the five daily prayers is it proven that the Prophet (peace andblessings of Allaah be upon him) raised his hands or not? If it is not proven, is it

permissible to raise the hands after the five daily prayers or not?

They replied:It is not proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) raised hishands in duaa after the obligatory prayers as far as we know, so raising them after the

salaam of an obligatory prayer is contrary to the Sunnah. Fataawa al-Lajnah, 7/104

TheCommittee also stated that saying duaa out loud after the five daily prayers or

regular Sunnah prayers, or reciting duaa in unison as a regular practice is areprehensible innovation (bidah), because it was not proven that the Prophet (peace and

blessings of Allaah be upon him) or his companions (may Allaah be pleased with them)

did anything like that. Whoever makes duaa after the obligatory or regular Sunnahprayers in unison is going against the way of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah, and for those

people to accuse those who disagree with them of being kaafirs and not belonging to Ahl

al-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah, is misguidance, ignorance and a distortion of the facts.Fataawa Islamiyyah, 1/319;0209

Wa alaikum assalam,

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One can raise their hands for dua'a after the Sunna prayer (should not be a regular

practice). Raising hands can be done after the Nafl prayers, and before or after any

prayers other than the obligatory ones. There are also instances whereby the dua'a isgranted such as the dua'a between Adhan and Iqama, the dua'a while fasting, the dua'a of

the traveler, the dua'a of the oppressed, the dua'a on the day of Juma'a between A'sr and

Maghrib... One can raise their hands whileinvoking Allah during those times.

And Allah knows best.

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