He replied:

Praise be to Allah, Lord of all worlds. It is established in the authentic hadith collections that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,

“offered qunūt for a month, supplicating against Ri‘l, Dhakwān, and ‘Usayyah,”

then discontinued it. This was after they had killed the Quran reciters among the Companions. It is also established that some time later, after the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyyah and the conquest of Khaybar, he offered qunūt, supplicating for his oppressed Companions in Mecca. In his qunūt, he would say:

“O Allah, deliver al-Walīd ibn al-Walīd, ‘Ayyāsh ibn Abī Rabī‘ah, Salamah ibn Hishām, and the oppressed believers. O Allah, deal severely with Mudar, and afflict them with years like those of Joseph.”

“He would offer qunūt, supplicating for the believers and cursing the disbelievers, and his qunūt was in the Fajr prayer.”

It is established in the authentic hadith collections

“that he offered qunūt in the Maghrib, ‘Ishā’, and Zuhr prayers,”

and in the Sunan collections,

“that he offered qunūt in the ‘Asr prayer”

as well.

Muslims have differed over qunūt, holding three views:

The first is that it has been abrogated and is therefore not prescribed under any circumstances. This rests on the reasoning that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, offered qunūt and then discontinued it, and that discontinuing an act abrogates its practice. Likewise, his later remaining seated for funerals was considered to abrogate his earlier practice of standing. This is the view of a group of scholars from Iraq, including Abū Hanīfah and others.