2070 — “Whenever something alarmed him, he would say: ‘He is Allah, my Lord; I associate nothing with Him.’”

Al-Nasāʾī transmitted it in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah (657), and from him Ibn al-Sunnī in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah, no. 330, and Abū Nuʿaym (5/219), from Sahl ibn Hāshim, who said: Al-Thawrī narrated to us, from Thawr ibn Yazīd, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Thawbān, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would... and he cited the remainder of the hadith. Abū Nuʿaym said: “No one narrated it from al-Thawrī except Sahl ibn Hāshim.”

I say: He was trustworthy, and those above him in the chain are trustworthy narrators of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Thus, the chain is authentic.

2071 — “When he raised his head from bowing in the final unit of the dawn prayer, he would recite the qunūt supplication.”

Ibn Naṣr transmitted it in Qiyām al-Layl, p. 132. He said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Ḥisāb narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, would... I say: This is an authentic chain according to Muslim’s criteria. Muslim also transmitted it (2/135) through two other routes from Ibn ʿUyaynah, through the same chain. Muslim, al-Bukhārī (3/217–218), and Aḥmad (2/255) also transmitted it through other routes from al-Zuhrī, in a fuller version.

Note: The qunūt mentioned in this hadith is the supplication offered in response to a calamity, as indicated by the wording in the hadith recorded by al-Bukhārī and Muslim: “wherein he would supplicate for the believers and invoke a curse upon the disbelievers.” See al-Irwāʾ (2/160–164). Even more explicit is Ibn Khuzaymah’s narration, worded: “He would not recite qunūt except when supplicating for someone or against someone.” Its chain is authentic.