Dear Gupguppy,
Assalam mun ale kum,
very easy way to find out where to put hands in Namaz.
Brother gupguppy not all sunnis tie hands.(all malkey's and some shaffey's and some humble'ys do not tie the hands at all))
Also shias do not tie the hands, so do as them. Open your hands, while praying
Shia have an explaination. They say if we consider four khalifatul Rashedine.
And if we consider 124,000 prophets, last being prophet mohammed (pbuh)
And last kalamey elahe is Quran
We muslims feel proud to declare that we all believe in prophet Mohammed as his massage is the most recent one, and so is islam the most recent religion among all religions of GOD.
And we muslims can prove that we are doing correct; as old AHKAMATS if were amended by GOD; our Rasoul (pbuh) were most upto date regarding every thing, we do not say our old Mossa, Essa etc were wrong but we follow the newest , last prophet as when any new call comes old are always not asked to follow
For example if I call you for a party at 3 and later I phone you and say please come at 7 , you would not follow my first time schedule, you would follow the latest that is you would come at seven. So old schedule cancels automatically when new schadule is provided.
Same way regarding khulafaei Rasheeda, old Ahkams of three previous ways stand cancelled automatically if the last one Ali did some changes. We must only follow Ali's way of not tieing the hands. This one can do if that one have eman that Ali was khalifa too, like first three.
Malikey's Fiqha sunnis obey Ali's, using the same criteria of principle as we muslims do for prophet Rasoul(pbuh) and as we use the principle for taking Quran as the most recent and new Elahi book, with what ever amendments GOD wanted to do in Quran.
ZARA EMAN DARI SAY MERI RA AEY PER SOUNCHEIN.
To undo my TAAVEAL do not waste time to do research, hunting ahadeez and many more things. I love all muslims, I listen to all, but I believe in that I would be alone hereafter my death to answer GOD for every bit, I think , I work for protection of my real soul of dine. And my life after death. Bye sokoon