Permissibility of Raising Hands in Friday Prayer
The Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa clarifies that raising the hands during supplication, especially during the Friday sermon and between the two sermons, is among the recommended etiquettes of prayer that help in accepting and answering the supplication. They emphasized that raising the hands reflects manners with Allah, demonstrating humility and poverty before Him. They also cited prophetic traditions indicating that raising the hands to the sky while making supplication is decorous, and that it is Sunnah in cases of need such as rain-seeking (Istisqā'), particularly on Fridays, when the time of acceptance for supplication is considered to be between the Imam's sitting and the end of the prayer. The scholars permit raising the hands in rain-seeking and other urgent needs, and consider it among the means of responding to supplication. There are some differences among the schools of thought regarding the dislike of raising the hands after the end of the second sermon, but overall, it remains a recommended Sunnah.
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