Musnad Ahmad 25159

Translation

✧ I asked Aisha how many units of voluntary prayers did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to offer. She said, "He used to offer four units, then three, then six, then three, then eight, then three, then ten, then three. He would not exceed thirteen units, nor would he offer less than seven. He would also never abandon the two units (sunnah) before the dawn prayer."

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• Qurṭubī

  نسب بعضهم حديث عائشة إلى الاضطراب والصواب أنه محمول على أوقات متعددة

  in مسند أحمد, p. 25744

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1707

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
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Qays

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي قَيْسٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 152 AH, said by Abū Bakr b. Kāmil, known as Ibn al-Qawwās, 158 AH, 168 AH, 172 AH, said by Abū Marwān b. Ḥayyān, author of the History of al-Andalus
   مُعَاوِيَةَصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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