What Was Narrated Concerning Qunut In The Fajr Prayer
Darussalam · Volume 2
(5) The Chapters OfEstablishing The PrayerAnd The SunnahRegarding ThemSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 1241 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 393
Source no. 1241 · Volume 3 · Page 241
Sahih
صحيح، الإرواء (٤٣٥) ، المشكاة (١٢٩٢)
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1241. Sa'd bin Târiq said: "I said to my father: 'O my father! You prayed behind the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ and behind Abu Bakr, 'Umar and 'Uthmân, and behind 'Ali here in Kufah for about five years. Did they recite Qunut in Fajr?' He said: 'O my son! That is an innovation.'" (Sahih)
1241 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ، وَحَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ، وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، عَنْ أَبِي مَالِكٍ الْأَشْجَعِيِّ سَعْدِ بْنِ طَارِقٍ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي: يَا أَبَتِ إِنَّكَ قَدْ صَلَّيْتَ خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ وَعُثْمَانَ وَعَلِيٍّ هَاهُنَا بِالْكُوفَةِ، نَحْوًا مِنْ خَمْسِ سِنِينَ، «فَكَانُوا يَقْنُتُونَ فِي الْفَجْرِ؟» فَقَالَ: أَيْ بُنَيَّ مُحْدَثٌ
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Târiq ﷺ does not say that the Qunut as a rule is Bid'ah (innovation). He only says that reciting the Qunut regularly in the of Fajr prayer is innovation. We gather from this, that sometimes an action in itself is Sunnah, but doing it in the wrong way, or making arbitrary additions or deletions in it, makes it an innovation. In other words, it is the particular manner of doing an that act.