[ O All?h, save and guide to Isl?m Al-Wal?d Ibn Al-Wal?d, O All?h save and guide to Isl?m Salamah Ibn Hisah?m, O All?h, save and guide to Isl?m ‘Ayy?sh Ibn Ab? Rab?‘ah. O All?h, send your wrath on Mudar. O All?h send on them years of famine as those You sent at the time of Joseph.]
Ab? Hurairah ( - رضي الله عنه -) said: ‘Days later, he ( - رضي الله عنه -) performed his Sal?t without doing Qun?t. I asked him about the reason and he ( - رضي الله عنه -) said: ‘Do you not see; they [the people mentioned in the Du‘?’] have all come to me [as muslims]’. (1)
So is the case with the Qun?t he ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) did in Al-Fajr Sal?t, it was dedicated for asking All?h’s ( - عز وجل -) relief from a certain affliction, that is why it was done for a month only. (2)
To conclude, due to the Fuqah?’s continuous interpretation for the word Qun?t to be the Du‘?’ that begins with ‘All?humma Ihdin? F?man Hadayt ... ’, and because of the misinterpretation of ‘Anas’ relation concerning the word Qun?t to mean this Du‘?’ only, people believed that reciting it in Sal?t was the prophet’s ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) continuous practice - the postulation which other ‘Ulama refuted deciding that it was not affirmed to be so. (3)
It is so strange how people abandon the true authentic ah?d?th that affirm the legality of reciting Qun?t at times of afflictions and stick to ah?d?th that are not even authentic. (4)
(1) Narrated by Al-Bukh?r? in his “Sah?h” (vol. 2 / p. 390) (no. 804) and Muslim in his “Sah?h” (vol. 1 / p. 467) (no. 294).
(2) Narrated by Ahmad in “Al-Musnad” (vol. 2 / p. 255), An-Nas?’? in “Al-Mujtab?” (vol. 2 / p. 201), Ibn M?jah in his “Sunnan” (vol. 1 / p. 394) (no. 1244), Al-Tah?w? in “Sharh Ma‘?n? Al-’?th?r” (vol. 1 / p. 241) and Al-Baihaq? in “As-Sunnan Al-Kubr?” (vol. 2 / p. 197).
(3) See: “Z?dul Ma‘?d” (vol. 1 / p. 275 - 83) with slight editing.
(4) It is mentioned in Abil Hasan Al-karji Ash-Sahfi‘? (d. 532H) biography that he used not to say Qun?t in Fajr Sal?t saying that no had?th affirms that he prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) did so. This indeed indicates this ‘?lim’s great knowledge and being free from blind conformity to the Mathhab.
This was reported in the biography of Ab? Abdill?h Muhammad Ibn Al-Fadl Ibn Nath?f Al-Farr?’ in the “Siyar” (vol. 17 / p. 477) that he][Ab? Abdill?h] used to lead people in Sal?t in Abdull?h mosque for 70 years and used to do Qun?t- since he was A sh?fi‘?. Then a man -from the M?likiyyah- preceded him and led people in Sal?t but never did Qun?t. Consequently, people abandoned him saying: ‘He does not do Sal?t well’.