Musnad Ahmad 26848

Translation

✧ I said: Should I perform Witr with three [rak'ahs], then go out to the prayer fearing that I might miss it? He said: It is only proper with five or seven.

Notes

• فَأَخْبَرْتُ مُجَاهِدًا وَيَحْيَى بْنَ الجَزَّارِ بِقَوْلِهِ فَقَالَا لِي سَلْهُعَمَّنْ؟ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ عَنِ الثِّقَةِ عَنِ الثِّقَةِ عَنْ مَيْمُونَةَ وَعَائِشَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

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Sunan Abi Dawud 1338

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
   قال
2. 2
   Miqsam b. Bajrah

   truthful (ṣadūq), and he used to narrate with omission of the intermediary (yursil)d. 101 AH
   مِقْسَمًاصدوق ، وكان يرسل
   سألت
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
   الْحَكَمُثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلس
   حدثني
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقن
   عن
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   وَيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   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.