Chapter: [What Has Been Related] About Not Performing The Qunut
Abu Malik Al-Ashjai narrated: I said to my father: 'O my father! You offered Salat behind Allah's Messenger (S), Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali bin Abi Talib here in Al-Kufah for about five years. Did they say the Qunut?' He said: 'It is a newly invented matter my son.'
There is another narration from Abu Malik: There exists another narration from Abu Malik with similar meaning but with different chain.