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to both shoulders, istighfār (ask for pardon, forgiveness) by

means of ishara (signaling, indicating, pointing) with one

finger. There is also ibtihāl (supplication) that is (istighāthat
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– asking, beseeching for help) by raising both hands high.
- Imām al Qāsim bin Muḥammad said: “I saw Ibnu fiUmar make

dufiā√ at al Qaṣi by raising both his hands until they were

opposite to his shoulders and both of the plams of his hands
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were facing towards his face.
- There is the Istisqā√ (request for rain) dufiā√ by means of raising

the hands high and directing the back of the hands to the sky.

From Anas  that he saw the Prophet  making dufiā√ at the
time of Istisqā√ by raising the hands high, directing the back of

the hands to the sky, and directing the palms of the hands
towards the earth until the whites of both armpits were

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visible.

About wiping the face.

- There is not one single ḥadīth that is ṣaḥīḥ concerning the

wiping of the face with the palms of the hands after dufiā√. All

100 Like within the jumfiat khuṭbah (Friday address) the khaṭīb (Imām, speaker) makes dufiā√
and asks for forgiveness from Allāh with one index finger in the manner exemplified by the
Messenger of Allāh  to his ṣaḥābat , and not by raising both hands. Refer Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim
874 (53).
101 Narrated by Abū Dāwūd 1490 and pronounced ṣaḥīḥ by Shaikh √Albānī within Ṣaḥīḥ Abī
Dāwūd I/279, no. 1322.
102 Pronounced ṣaḥīḥ by Ḥafīẓ Ibnu Ḥajar within Fatḥul Bārī XI/143.
103 Narrated by Abū Dāwūd 1171 (Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd 1038), and this ḥadīth is also narrated by
Al Bukhārī 1030, 1031, and Muslim 896.
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