Musnad Ahmad 5470

Translation

✧ A man from the desert called out to the Messenger of God ﷺ while I was between him and the Bedouin: O Messenger of God, how is the night prayer? He said: Two by two; and when you fear the morning, then one, and two rak'ahs before the morning prayer.

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some hostility toward ʿAlī (naṣb) in himd. during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf over Iraq, or 108 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ الْعُقَيْلِيِّثقة ، فيه نصب
   عن
3. 3
   Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.
   خَالِدٌ الْحَذَّاءُثقة يرسل.
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   ʿAlī b. ʿĀṣim

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes and persists [in them], and accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 201 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَاصِمٍصدوق ، يخطئ ويصر ، ورمي بالتشيع
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.