On the authority of ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, when he opened the prayer, raised his hands level with his shoulders, and when he bowed, and when he raised his head from the bow, he raised them likewise and said: "Allah hears the one who praises Him; our Lord, and to You belongs the praise." And he did not do that in prostration. (1)

4 - Chapter: Raising the hands level with the ears

879 - Qutaybah informed us, saying: Abu al-Ahwas narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Wāʾil, from his father, who said: I prayed behind the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. When he opened the prayer, he said the takbīr and raised his hands until they were level with his ears. Then he recited (2) the Opening of the Book, and when he finished it, he said: "Āmīn," raising his voice with it. (3)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is sound, and it is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā, no. (954).
It is in Mālik's Muwaṭṭaʾ (99) in the narration of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī, and from the path of Mālik it was also recorded by Aḥmad (4674) and (5279 — without the mention of his saying: "Allah hears the one who praises Him..."), al-Bukhārī (735), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1861).
It is also in Mālik's Muwaṭṭaʾ 1/75 in the narration of Yaḥyā al-Laythī, but without the mention of raising the hands when intending to bow.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in al-Tamhīd 9/211 deemed correct the narration of those who transmitted the ḥadīth from Mālik with the mention of raising the hands before the bow, and he mentioned that its omission came from Mālik, and perhaps he erred in it, because a group of ḥuffāẓ narrated both versions from him.
(2) The confirmed reading is from (M) and the margin of (R), while in (R), (K), and (H): he recites.
(3) A sound ḥadīth, but this chain of transmission is weak due to its discontinuity — ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Wāʾil did not hear from his father, and Abu al-Ahwas — who is Sallām ibn Sulaym — it is not clear to me whether his narration from Abu Isḥāq — who is al-Sabīʿī — was before his confusion or after it, and some of his narrations from him are in the two Ṣaḥīḥs.
It was also recorded by Aḥmad (18873) and (18875) via the path of Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, and Ibn Mājah (855) =