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32. QUNŪT NĀZĪLAH.

QunūtNāzīlah is a qunūtdufiā√ performed when there is a
calamity or disaster that has struck the Muslims, such as warfare,

the killing of Muslims, or from attacks upon the Muslims.
QunūtNāzīlah is to perform dufiā√ in order that there befalls benefit

or victory upon the Mu√minūn (believers) and to perform dufiā√ in

order that mishaps and defeat, devestation and destruction befall the
disbelievers, the Mushrikīn and those who fight against the

Muslims. The ḥukm (legitimacy) of Qunūt Nāzīlah is sunnah,
carried out after the rukūfi in the last rakafiāt of the five obligatory

acts of ṣalāt, and this matter was carried out by the a√imma (pl. of

Imām) or the √Ūlīl √Amri (those [Muslims Trans. ] in authority).

Imām at-Tirmidhī said: “Aḥmad (bin Ḥanbal) and Isḥāq bin

Rāhawaih have said: ‘there is no qunūt in ṣalātul Fajr (Ṣubḥ) except
when there is (some form of) Nāzīlah (calamitous occurrence) that

has befallen the Muslims. So whenever something has happened,

let it be that the Imām (that is the Imām of the Muslims or the √Ūlīl
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√Amri) make dufiā√ for the victory of the Muslim armies’”.

On the basis of a ḥadīth from Ibnu fiAbbās , that the
Messenger of Allāh carried out qunūt for one month continuously

during the ṣalawāt of Ẓuhr, fiAṣr, Maghrib, fiIshā√ and Ṣubḥ at the
end of every ṣalāt, that is whenever he read: ‘Samifia Allāhu liman

356 Tuḥfatul √Aḥwadhī Sharḥ (Jāmifi) At-Tirmidhī II/434.
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