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Sunan Abi Dawud 1324

Starting The Night Prayer With Two Rak'ahs

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حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ خَالِدٍ عَنْ رَبَاحِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ إِذَا بِمَعْنَاهُ زَادَ

ثُمَّ لْيُطَوِّلْ بَعْدُ مَا شَاءَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Makhlad b. Khālid
  2. Ibrāhīm / Ibn Khālid
  3. Rabāḥ b. Zayd
  4. Maʿmar
  5. Ayyūb
  6. Ibn Sīrīn
  7. Abū Hurayrah
  8. Idhā Bimaʿnāh Zād

He should then prolong it afterwards as much as he likes. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Hammad b. Salamah, Zuhair b. Mu'awiyah and a group of narrators from Hisham. They transmitted it as a statement of Abu Hurairah himself (mauquf). This tradition has also been transmitted by Ibn 'Awn from Muhammad (b. Sirin). This version has the wordings: These two rak'ahs were short.

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Narrators

  1. مخلد بن خالد الشعيري
  2. إبراهيم بن خالد القرشي
  3. رباح بن زيد القرشي
  4. معمر بن أبي عمرو الأزدي
  5. أيوب السختياني
  6. محمد بن سيرين الأنصاري
  7. أبو هريرة الدوسي