Musnad Ahmad 1218

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray Witr at the beginning of the night, in the middle and at the end, then he settled on praying Witr at the end of the night.

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه مطرف بن طريف واختلف عنه فرواه هشيم عن مطرف عن أبي إسحاق عن بعض أصحاب علي عن علي وقال عبثر عن مطرف عن أبي إسحاق عن عاصم بن ضمرة عن علي ورواه يونس بن أبي إسحاق عن أبي إسحاق عن عاصم والحارث عن علي وهو محفوظ عنهما

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1225

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 223

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Muṭarrif

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 133 AH, or: 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   مُطَرِّفٍثقة فاضل
   عن
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl

   truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Khaythamah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
   أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبت
   حدثني
7. 7
   ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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