Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 3170
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ، قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَنَسًا ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ الْقُنُوتِ. قَالَ قَبْلَ الرُّكُوعِ. فَقُلْتُ إِنَّ فُلاَنًا يَزْعُمُ أَنَّكَ قُلْتَ بَعْدَ الرُّكُوعِ، فَقَالَ كَذَبَ. ثُمَّ حَدَّثَنَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّهُ قَنَتَ شَهْرًا بَعْدَ الرُّكُوعِ يَدْعُو عَلَى أَحْيَاءٍ مِنْ بَنِي سُلَيْمٍ ـ قَالَ ـ بَعَثَ أَرْبَعِينَ أَوْ سَبْعِينَ ـ يَشُكُّ فِيهِ ـ مِنَ الْقُرَّاءِ إِلَى أُنَاسٍ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، فَعَرَضَ لَهُمْ هَؤُلاَءِ فَقَتَلُوهُمْ، وَكَانَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَهْدٌ، فَمَا رَأَيْتُهُ وَجَدَ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مَا وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِمْ.
Abu al-Nuʿman narrated to us: Thabit ibn Yazid narrated to us: ʿAsim narrated to us, saying: I asked Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) about qunut. He said, ‘It is before bowing.’ I said, ‘So-and-so claims that you said it is after bowing.’ He replied, ‘He has lied.’ Then he related to us from the Prophet (ﷺ) that he performed qunut for a month after bowing, invoking against certain clans of Banu Sulaym. He said: The Prophet (ﷺ) sent forty—or seventy, the narrator was unsure—reciters to some polytheists. Those people ambushed them and killed them, although they had a pact with the Prophet (ﷺ). I never saw him grieve over anyone as deeply as he grieved over them.’