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السيوطي:٢٢-١٦٢b

"أَنَّ رَسُولَ الله ﷺ قَنَتَ فِى الْوِتْرِ قَبْلَ الرُّكُوعِ".  

[د] أبو داود [هـ] ابن ماجة

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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Ṭabarānī, Bayhaqī, Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:1182ʿAlī b. Maymūn al-Raqqī > Makhlad b. Yazīd > Sufyān > Zubayd al-Yāmī > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abzá from his father > Ubay b. Kaʿb

It was narrated from Ubayy bin Ka’b that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray Witr and he would recite Qunut before Ruku’.  

ابن ماجة:١١٨٢حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ الرَّقِّيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ الْيَامِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبْزَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُوتِرُ فَيَقْنُتُ قَبْلَ الرُّكُوعِ  

tabarani:9432ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Ḥajjāj b. al-Minhāl > Ḥammād > Abū Ḥamzah > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] He used to offer voluntary prayers before the bowing (rak'ahs) in a prayer, but he did not offer voluntary prayers before the morning prayer.  

الطبراني:٩٤٣٢حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ ثنا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ

أَنَّهُ «كَانَ يَقْنُتُ فِي الْوِتْرِ قَبْلَ الرُّكُوعِ وَلَا يَقْنُتُ فِي صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ»  

bayhaqi:4860Abū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān > al-Shāfiʿī Ḥikāyah > Hushaym > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > ʿAlī

[Machine] That Ali used to engage in optional prayer (witr) after the bowing (rak'ah)  

البيهقي:٤٨٦٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أنبأ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ حِكَايَةً عَنْ هُشَيْمٍ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ

أَنَّ عَلِيًّا ؓ كَانَ يَقْنُتُ فِي الْوِتْرِ بَعْدَ الرُّكُوعِ