I asked Anas about the qunut, and he said, "It was before the bowing."I said, "So-and-so claims that you said it was after the bowing."He replied, "He has lied."Then he narrated to us from the Prophet ﷺ that he made qunut for a month after the bowing, supplicating against some clans of Banu Sulaym. He said that the Prophet ﷺ had sent forty, or seventy (the narrator was uncertain), of the reciters of the Quran to a group of polytheists, but these people intercepted them and killed them, even though there was a treaty between them and the Prophet ﷺ. I never saw the Prophet ﷺ grieve over anyone as much as he grieved over them.
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سألت أنسا رضي الله عنه عن القنوت قال قبل الركوع فقلت إن فلانا يزعم أنك قلت بعد الركوع فقال كذب ثم حدثنا عن النبي ﷺ أنه قنت شهرا بعد الركوع يدعو على أحياء من بني سليم قال بعث أربعين أو سبعين يشك فيه من القراء إلى أناس من المشركين فعرض لهم هؤلاء فقتلوهم وكان بينهم وبين النبي ﷺ عهد فما رأيته وجد على أحد ما وجد عليهم