Musnad Ahmad 21555

Translation

✧ I said to Abu Dharr, “Which part of the night prayer is best?” Abu Dharr said, “I asked the Messenger of God ﷺ just as you asked me—Awf was uncertain—and he said, ‘The last part of the night—or the middle of the night—and few are those who do it.’”

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1277Sunan an-Nasa'i 584Sunan Ibn Majah 1251

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
   أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   Abū Muslim al-Jidhmī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبُو مُسْلِمٍمقبول
   حدثني
3. 3
   Rufayʿ b. Mihrān

   trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 90 AH, or: 93 AH, or: 96 AH, or: 98 AH, or: 106 AH, or: 111 AH
   أَبُو الْعَالِيَةِثقة ، كثير الإرسال
   حدثني
4. 4
   Muhājir b. Makhlad

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   مُهَاجِرٍ أَبِي خَالِدٍمقبول
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAwf b. Abī Jamīlah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AH
   عَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   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 view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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