Sunan Abi Dawud 1325
Starting The Night Prayer With Two Rak'ahs
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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ حَنْبَلٍ يَعْنِي أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجٌ قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ الأَزْدِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حُبْشِيٍّ الْخَثْعَمِيِّ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ أَىُّ الأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقِيَامِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Ḥanbal / Aḥmad
- Ḥajjāj
- Ibn Jurayj
- ʿUthmān b. Abū Sulaymān
- ʿAlī al-Azdī
- ʿUbayd b. ʿUmayr
- ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥubshī al-Khathʿamī
The Prophet ﷺ was asked: which is the best action? He replied: To stand in prayer for a long time.
Grades by grader
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
|---|---|---|
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Strong Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 1325Another source records this grader as “Sahih” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناد قوي
machine translationThe chain is strong (qawī).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1323
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20374Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4876al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18597al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4765Musnad al-Bazzar 3016
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ حُبْشِيٍّ الْخَثْعَمِيُّصحابيعن
- Unanimously agreed to be trustworthy (thiqah)d. 68 AH, also said: 74 AHعُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍمجمع على ثقتهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. between 91 and 100 AHعَلِيٍّ الْأَزْدِيِّصدوق ، ربما أخطأعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَثقةأخبرني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AHابْنُ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسلقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AHحَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موتهنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewابْنُ حَنْبَلٍ يَعْنِي أَحْمَدَثقة حافظ فقيه حجةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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