this.” Al-Bayhaqī added, after “No one You befriend is humiliated”: “Nor is anyone You oppose exalted.”
Among the reports indicating that Anas meant by qunūt after bowing the standing devoted to supplication and praise is that narrated by Sulaymān ibn Harb: Abū Hilāl related to us; Hanzala, the imam of Qatāda’s mosque—I say: he is al-Sadūsī—related to us, saying: Qatāda and I disagreed about qunūt in the dawn prayer. Qatāda said it was before bowing, while I said it was after bowing. We went to Anas ibn Mālik and mentioned this to him. He said: “I came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, during the dawn prayer. He pronounced the takbīr, bowed, raised his head, and then prostrated. Then he stood for the second rakʿah, pronounced the takbīr, bowed, and raised his head. He stood for a while, then went down into prostration” (1).
This is exactly like Thābit’s report from him, and it clarifies what Anas meant by qunūt, since he cited it as evidence for those who said that he performed qunūt after bowing. Thus, Anas meant this prolonged standing, and all his reports agree. Success comes from Allah.
As for what is reported from the Companions, it falls into two categories:
The first is qunūt in times of calamity, such as the qunūt of Abū Bakr al-Siddīq when the Companions were fighting Musaylima (2), and when fighting the People of the Book (3); likewise, the qunūt of ʿUmar (4), and the qunūt of