Q464: in janaza salah ,2 salams or 1, surah Fatiha or not?'

Qusetion: How do you pray janazah salah? With one salam or two?do you have to pray surah Fatiha?do the peple behind the imaam also raise hands on every Allahuakbar?

Answer- Namaz janazah is read with two salams according to the hanafi ruling. According to the Hanafi School of fiqh one does not have to read surah Fatiha. Also the hands are not raised in the extra Takbeerat in Janazah namaz. Shami
ولا يسن مؤكدا رفع اليدين إلا في سبع مواطن كما ورد بناء علي أن الصفا و المروة واحد نظرا للسعي ثلاثة في الصلاة تكبيرة افتتاح و قنوت و عيد و خمسة في الحج استلام الحجر و الصفا و المروة عرفات و الجمرات
It is not Masnoon to raise the hands except in 7 places, beginning of salah, Qunoot, Eidayn , the Istilaam(greeting) of the Hajar-e-aswad, at the time of Sa’ee, Arafat and after the pelting of the Jamaraat.