Musnad Ahmad 24342

Translation

✧ I asked 'A'ishah about the night prayer of the Prophet ﷺ. She said: 'He would sleep at the beginning of it and stand at the end of it.'

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1146Sahih Muslim 1313Sunan Abi Dawud 2009

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
   سألت
2. 2
   al-Aswad b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī

   Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AH
   الْأَسْوَدِمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيه
   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
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.