Musnad Ahmad 1232
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍ النَّاقِدُ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْخُرَيْبِيُّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
إِنَّ الْوِتْرَ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَأَوْتِرُوا يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh
- ʿAmr b. Muḥammad b. Bukayr al-Nāqid
- ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwud al-Khuraybī
- ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
Witr is not a must, but it is a Sunnah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ established, so pray Witr, O people of the Qurʿan.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Strong | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Qawi (Darussalam) | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah.
in مسند أحمد, p. 1239
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- 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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 154 AH, or 157 AHعَلِيِّ بْنِ صَالِحٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 211 AH, or 212 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 213 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْخُرَيْبِيُّثقة عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retainer of hadith (ḥāfiẓ), who made an error (wahima) in one hadithd. 232 AH, ʿUbayd b. Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-Bazzār said: the year 231 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍ النَّاقِدُثقة حافظ وهم في حديثحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297عَبْدُ اللهِثقة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.