Musnad Abi Ya'la 4863

Translation

✧ I was a man who sought out the authorities, so my father seized me and imprisoned me — Mubarak said: and I do not think he said anything except: and he shackled me — then he said to me: By God, you will not leave until you have memorized the Book of God. So I memorized the Book of God, and God benefited me through it, and the world left me, and I began to dislike marrying and doing things. So I entered upon Aisha and said: Sa'd b. Hisham b. Amir. She said: May God have mercy on Amir; he was struck down on the day of Uhud as a martyr. He said: I said: O Mother of the Believers, I want to become celibate, so I came to ask you about that. She said: O Hisham, do not become celibate, for God said: 'Indeed in the Messenger of God you have a good example,' and the Messenger of God ﷺ married and had children. He said: I said: O Mother of the Believers, tell me about the character of the Messenger of God ﷺ. She said: O my son, do you not recite the Quran? God said: 'And indeed you are upon a great character.' The character of Muhammad is the Quran. He said: I said: O Mother of the Believers, tell me about the prayer of the Messenger of God ﷺ. She said: O my son, who can endure the prayer of the Messenger of God ﷺ? The Messenger of God ﷺ, when he prayed, prayed two rak'ahs, then slept a short sleep, then got up and prayed two rak'ahs, and two, and two, and two, and two, and one — or she said: he prayed two, and two, and two, and two, and one — a prayer after Isha of nine rak'ahs, and eleven. When the Messenger of God ﷺ became heavy and his flesh increased, he prayed two, and two, and one, and prayed two rak'ahs sitting.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 746cSunan Ibn Majah 1191Musnad Ahmad 24777Sahih Ibn Hibban 2642aSahih Ibn Hibban 2644al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8090

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Saʿd b. Hishām

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
   سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامِ بْنِ عَامِرٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنُثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Mubārak b. Faḍālah

   Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (tadlīs) including tadlīs al-taswiyahd. 164 AH, or 165 AH, or 166 AH
   مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَصدوق يدلس ويسوي
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Hudbah b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, al-Nasāʾī alone considered him soft (layyin)d. 235 AH, or: 236 AH, or: 237 AH, or: 238 AH, also said: 239 AH
   هُدْبَةُثقة عابد ، تفرد النسائي بتليينه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

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