Musnad Ahmad 24042

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to perform voluntary prayers called "Tahajjud" with nine rak'ahs. However, as he grew older and found it burdensome, he shortened it to seven rak'ahs.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  وقول ابن فضيل أشبه بالصواب

  in مسند أحمد, p. 24620

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1719

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
   عن
2. 2
   Yaḥyá b. al-Jazzār al-ʿUranī

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of extremism in Shīʿismd. between 81 and 90 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ الْجَزَّارِصدوق ، رمي بالغلو في التشيع
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUmārah b. ʿUmayr al-Taymī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 82 AH, or 98 AH, or 100 AH
   عُمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   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
   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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