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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Place of the Qunut Supplication in the Witr Prayer

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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the qunut supplication in the witr prayer before the bowing or after the bowing?

The Shaykh:
There is scholarly disagreement on this, but the stronger position is that it is recited after the bowing.
Whenever the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got upكان صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا قام من
Riyad as-Salihin 1197
He would supplicate against the polytheists when he rose from the bowing.

The questioner:
That is the end.

The Shaykh:
And Allah the Exalted knows best.
Source إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 21-01-1435هـ — af.org.sa (1:08:51)

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