from Abū Hurayrah, who reported that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—performed qunūt during ‘Ishā’ prayer for a month, saying:

“O Allah, deliver al-Walīd ibn al-Walīd. O Allah, deliver Salamah ibn Hishām. O Allah, deliver ‘Ayyāsh ibn Abī Rabī‘ah. O Allah, deliver the oppressed believers. O Allah, intensify Your punishment of Mudar. O Allah, afflict them with years of famine like those in the time of Joseph.”

Abū Hurayrah said: One morning, he did not supplicate for them. I mentioned this to him, and he replied, “Do you not see that they have arrived?”

His qunūt during Fajr was exactly the same: it was prompted by a temporary circumstance and a calamity. That is why Anas specified its duration as one month. Abū Hurayrah also reported that he performed qunūt for them during Fajr for a month (1), and both reports are authentic.

The hadith narrated by ‘Ikrimah from Ibn ‘Abbās has already been mentioned (2): the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—performed qunūt for a month without interruption during Zuhr, ‘Asr, Maghrib, ‘Ishā’, and Fajr. Abū Dāwūd and others narrated it, and it is an authentic hadith.

Al-Tabarānī mentioned in his Mu‘jam (3) a report transmitted through Muhammad ibn Anas, who said: Mutarrif ibn Tarīf narrated to us, from Abū al-Jahm, from al-Barā’, that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—never offered an obligatory prayer without performing qunūt in it. Al-Tabarānī said, “No one narrated it from Mutarrif except Muhammad ibn Anas.” End of quotation. Although this chain of transmission cannot (4) serve as authoritative evidence, the hadith is sound