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"''Qunut''" is a supplication type of prayer made while standing in 
Islam
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.
Etymology
"''Qunūt''" () Qunut comes from the root "qunu", which literally means to obtain something and a cluster of dates, and in Quranic terms, it means obedience and worship along with humility and humility. The word duʿā' () is Arabic for supplication, so the longer phrase duʿā' qunūt is sometimes used. Qunut has manylinguistic meaning
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s, such as humility, obedience and devotion. However, it is more understood to be a special du'a which is recited during the prayer.
Customs
Shia
Reciting ''qunūt'' in prayer—raising the hands before the face and reciting supplications—as is commonly practiced among Shia (raising both hands in the second rak‘ah before going into rukūʿ), is not customary in any of the four Sunni schools of thought. In all obligatory and recommended prayers, performing ''qunūt'' in the second rak‘ah before rukūʿ is considered recommended (''mustahabb'').Sunni
It is permissible to make the ''qunut'' before going into ''ruku'' (bowing), or it may be recited when one stands up straight after the ''ruku''. Humaid says: "I asked Anas: 'Is the qunut before or after the ''ruku''?' he said: 'We would do it before or after." Thishadith
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was related by Ibn Majah and Muhammad ibn Nasr. In Fath al-Bari, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, ...
comments that its chain is faultless. During dua qunut, the hands should be put together like a beggar.
The minority Ibadi
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Ibadism emerged around 6 ...
school of Islam rejects the practice of ''qunūt'' altogether.
References
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