The weakness of the hadith that the imam’s supplication for himself in prayer is a betrayal of the ma'mum.

The questioner : Regarding supplication behind the imam in prayer, there is a hadith that he held back from supplicating for others.

The Shaykh : Do you mean qunut, or supplication in general?

The questioner : I mean the hadith...

The Shaykh : He betrayed them. This is a weak hadith.

The questioner : In what context? In this chapter, regarding standing...?

The Shaykh : We know that the worship of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was in the singular form. What do we say about the opening supplication? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: , "Purify me and wash me," and so on, all in the singular form.
Before the taslim, the last thing he would say was: , and so on. All of it was in the singular form. So how can it be that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), by restricting his supplication to himself, has betrayed?

The questioner : Could these supplications be related to the secret prayers?

The Shaykh : In the loud prayers.

The questioner : Why not in the secret prayers?

The Shaykh : Because it is narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when he would say the takbir for prayer, would pause for a moment. We said: O Messenger of Allah, what do you say in your silence between the takbir and the recitation? He said: I say: . And then the second hadith is . This is a long hadith in Sahih Muslim, which also narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when he would stand for prayer, would say the takbir and then say: , and so on. Then the last thing he would supplicate with at the end of his prayer was , and so on.

The questioner : ... . ؟

The Shaykh : Do you mean you regret your question a bit now, so that we can understand each other?
I mean, at first the question was general, but now it has become specific. In the original, the hadith is , which is not authentic.
Second: We have nothing that indicates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to supplicate specifically for himself in his supplication when he supplicated aloud, as is your current question.
But at the same time, there is no objection to either of the two matters. If the imam supplicates aloud for a specific reason, such as the occurrence of calamities, it is not your question about the qunut supplication for others.
So we have nothing where the imam supplicates aloud in the prayer... The qunut supplication, and the authentic, established qunut supplication in the Sunnah is only the supplication for a calamity that befalls the Muslims.
And it is very obvious that in that case, the supplication should be for the group. Therefore, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), as narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, would supplicate for the weak Muslims and supplicate against the disbelievers. So, there is nothing in the prayer where it is prescribed to supplicate aloud except the qunut supplication for a calamity. And in that case, in reality, it necessitates that the supplication is not for the individual but for all the Muslims. And despite all this, we do not say that it is not permissible for a Muslim to include the Muslims in his supplication. But we say that if a Muslim supplicates for himself, he does not deserve the severe punishment implied by that weak hadith.

The questioner : And there is no other hadith, nor any evidence for it...

The Shaykh : Of course, as an authentic hadith, there is none. There is a hadith we have extracted that is weak, but after it was published, it was narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) heard a man supplicating for himself and said to him: , meaning he generalized it. But this hadith is very weak and cannot serve as a proof.