Musnad Ahmad 26725

Translation

✧ "That the Prophet ﷺ used to perform voluntary prayers after Isha prayer, consisting of either seven or five units, without speaking or giving salutations between them."

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Bukhari

  طعن فيه بانقطاعه

  in مسند أحمد, p. 27314

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1338

Narrators

1. 1
   Umm Salamah Hind bt. Abū Umayyah

   Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AH
   أُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنين
   عن
2. 2
   Miqsam b. Bajrah

   truthful (ṣadūq), and he used to narrate with omission of the intermediary (yursil)d. 101 AH
   مِقْسَمٍصدوق ، وكان يرسل
   عن
3. 3
   al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah al-Kindī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AH
   الْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaḥyá b. Ādam

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 203 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَثقة حافظ فاضل
   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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