728 — ‘Uthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Shurayk narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, from his father, from Wā’il ibn Ḥujr, who said: I saw the Prophet — peace be upon him — when he opened the prayer, raise his hands level with his ears. He said: Then I came to them and saw them raising their hands to their chests at the opening of the prayer, wearing cloaks with hoods and woolen garments.

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It is found in full in *Musnad Aḥmad* (18870).

The placing of the right hand upon the left was also reported by Ibn Mājah (810) via two chains from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, from him.

It was also reported by al-Nasā’ī (963) via two chains from ʿAlqamah ibn Wā’il, from his father.

As for the story of the garments, Zā’idah ibn Qudāmah was followed in reporting it with this chain by Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah — as found in al-Ḥumaydī (885), al-Dāraquṭnī (1120), al-Bayhaqī 2/24, and al-Khaṭīb in *al-Faṣl li-l-Waṣl al-Mudraj fī al-Naql* 1/427–428.

But Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah — as found in Aḥmad (18876) and al-Khaṭīb 1/437 — and Abū Badr Shujāʿ ibn al-Walīd — as found in al-Khaṭīb 1/438 — differed from them both. They reported from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, from his father, from Wā’il, the story of his arrival on the first occasion, then they reported from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, who said: ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Wā’il narrated to me, from some of his family, from Wā’il, and he mentioned the story of moving the hands beneath the garments.

Al-Khaṭīb favored this latter narration, and the anonymity of some of ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s family does no harm; one of them has been named as ʿAlqamah ibn Wā’il in what preceded at number (723), and he is trustworthy.

(1) In (A): “cloaks with hoods, woolen garments.”

(2) Shurayk — namely Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Nakhaʿī — his memory changed after he assumed the judgeship, and there is disagreement concerning him regarding the chain of this ḥadīth. It was reported from him as “from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, from his father, from Wā’il” as in this narration, and it was also reported from him as “from ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, from ʿAlqamah ibn Wā’il, from his father” as will follow after this. The second narration is more correct, for the reason already explained in the discussion of the preceding ḥadīth.

It was also reported by al-Ṭaḥāwī 1/196, and al-Khaṭīb in *al-Faṣl li-l-Waṣl* 1/440, 441–442, and 442 via multiple chains from Shurayk, with this chain.