What is the ruling on specifying the qunut in the Fajr prayer? And what is the authenticity of the hadith reported regarding that?

The questioner : Specifying the qunut in the Fajr prayer

The Shaykh : Yes

The questioner : Specifying the qunut in the Fajr prayer

The Shaykh : There is no authentic hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite the qunut in the Fajr prayer always and forever. The hadith that the Shafi'is rely on in their school, which they still adhere to today, is a weak hadith, as if it were narrated through a man known for poor memorization, namely Abu Ja'far al-Razi. This is his kunyah, and he is famous by it; his name is Isa ibn Mahan. He is the one who narrated through his chain from Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: This hadith is weak in its chain and denounceable in its text. As for its weakness, you have known it because of Abu Ja'far al-Razi. As for the denouncement of its text, it is from the side that the hadith came from Anas ibn Malik through other routes, some of which are authentic, with a wording that contradicts this wording that Abu Ja'far al-Razi uniquely narrated, where the trustworthy one narrated it with the wording: So he did not recite the qunut always and forever, but rather he used to recite the qunut when he supplicated for a group of believers or against a group of disbelievers. This is called by the jurists the qunut of the calamity. When a calamity befalls the Muslims, it is prescribed at that time for the imams of the mosques to supplicate with a supplication that corresponds to the calamity that has befallen them, and they do not supplicate with the supplication that is part of the sunnah of the witr qunut Rather, the imam supplicates with what corresponds to the disaster that has befallen the Muslims. So this hadith is the only hadith that those who claim the sunnah of the qunut in Fajr for all time hold onto. So we can say finally that it has no basis in the authentic Sunnah. Yes.