Sayyidina Ali ibn Talib reported that when Allah’s Messenger r1 stood for fard salah, he raised his hand up to his shoulders. When he finished the recital (of the Qur’an) and went in to ruku, he did that again. He did the same thing on raising his head from ruku. Buthe did not raise his hand on any posture when he was sitting down. When he got up from the two postures, he raised his hands in the same way, saying Allahu Akbar. When he began the salah, after the takbir, he would say: Translation as in the preceding hadith up to “la manja” whereafter: There is no shelter from You and no place of refuge except by having recourse to You. I seek Your forgiveness and repent to You. Then he recited (the Quran). When he bowed down into ruku, his words in ruku were: O Allah, I bow down for you, and in you do I believe, and to you do I submit. Humbled before you are my hearing, my sight, my marrow, my bénes and my nerves. When he raised his head from the ruku, he said: Allah hears He who glorified him and he followed it with: O Allah, our Lord, for You is all praise as fills up the heavens and the earths and that which is between them, and fills up that which You wish of anything (besites these). Then he prostrated and said: O Allah, to You do. I prostrate and in You do I believe and to You do I submit. My face prostrated to Him Who created it and fashioned it, and opened in it its hearing and its sight. So blessed is Allah the Best of all Creators! When he had finished offering the salah, he said: O Allah, forgive me that which I have hastened and that which I have delayed (of sins), what I have concealed and what I have disclosed, and that which you know of it better than I do. You are the One Who advances and You are The One Who delays. There is no God, but You. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------