Musnad Ahmad 5537

Translation

✧ A man asked the Prophet ﷺ about Al-Watr (The Odd Prayer). The Prophet ﷺ replied, "I used to walk with that man," and then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The night prayer is prayed in pairs and the odd prayer is one rakah." Shu'bah said, "He did not mention towards the end of the night."

Notes

• قَالَ شُعْبَةُ لَمْ يَقُلْ مِنْ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ

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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
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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
   عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ شَقِيقٍثقة ، فيه نصب
   سمعت
3. 3
   Abū Bishr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Saʿīd b. Jubayrd. 123 AH or 124 AH or 125 AH or 126 AH, also said: 131 AH
   أَبِي بِشْرٍثقة ، من أثبت الناس في سعيد بن جبير
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
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5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   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

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

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