Sunan Abi Dawud 1382

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to spend the middle ten days of Ramadan in retirement and devotion (i'tikaf) in the mosque. One year he had retirement and devotion in the mosque (as usual); when the twenty-first night came, and this night when he used to come out his devotion in the mosque, he said: He who has engaged himself in devotion along with me should do so during the last ten days; I saw that night, that was caused to forget it, but I have seen myself prostrating in water and mud on the morning following (that night), so seek it in the last ten days and seek it every night with an odd number. Abu sa'id said: Rain fell that night, the mosque that was thatched building dripped, and my eyes saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with the traces of water and mud, on his forehead on the morning following the twenty-first night.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ فَمُطِرَتِ السَّمَاءُ مِنْ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ وَكَانَ الْمَسْجِدُ عَلَى عَرِيشٍ فَوَكَفَ الْمَسْجِدُ. فَقَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ فَأَبْصَرَتْ عَيْنَاىَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَعَلَى جَبْهَتِهِ وَأَنْفِهِ أَثَرُ الْمَاءِ وَالطِّينِ مِنْ صَبِيحَةِ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هذا حديث صحيح

  machine translationThis is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1380
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  قال أبو عمر في ليلة إحدى وعشرين حديث أبي سعيد الخدري من رواية مالك وغيره وفي ليلة ثلاث وعشرين حديث عبد الله بن أنيس الجهني وقد تقدم ذكره وفي ليلة سبع وعشرين حديث أبي بن كعب وحديث معاوية وهي كلها صحاح

  machine translationAbū ʿUmar said: Regarding the twenty-first night, there is the hadith of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the narration of Mālik and others; regarding the twenty-third night, the hadith of ʿAbdullāh b. Unays al-Juhanī, which has already been mentioned; and regarding the twenty-seventh night, the hadith of Ubayy b. Kaʿb and the hadith of Muʿāwiyah. All of them are sound (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1380

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1167cSahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2450al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14975al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14977al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 95

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثر
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيِّثقة له أفراد
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn al-Hād

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 139 AH.
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْهَادِثقة مكثر .
   عن
5. 5
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   عن
6. 6
   al-Qaʿnabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
   الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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