Supplication After Every Tarwiha

Question

At our place, in the twenty-rak‘a tarawih prayer, supplication with raised hands is made five times, that is, after [every] four rak‘as of prayer a supplication is made once, and after that a supplication with raised hands is made again. But throughout U.P. the supplication is made only at [the completion of] twenty rak‘as. If at our place it is proposed [to make] the supplication after twenty rak‘as, [people] become ready to fight.

Answer

There is no proof in the books of hadith and fiqh for making supplication with raised hands after every four rak‘as of tarawih — let alone for insisting on it and making it a binding practice (iltizam). And since the twenty rak‘as of tarawih are one complete prayer, performed with ten salams and five tarwihas, the proof of supplication after every prayer suffices as proof of…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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