Musnad Ahmad 580

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray Witr at the beginning of the night and in the middle and at the end, then he persisted in praying it at the end of the night.

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه مطرف بن طريف واختلف عنه فرواه هشيم عن مطرف عن أبي إسحاق عن بعض أصحاب علي عن علي وقال عبثر عن مطرف عن أبي إسحاق عن عاصم بن ضمرة عن علي ورواه يونس بن أبي إسحاق عن أبي إسحاق عن عاصم والحارث عن علي وهو محفوظ عنهما

  in مسند أحمد, p. 584

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 223

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
   عَاصِمٍصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Muṭarrif

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 133 AH, or: 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   مُطَرِّفٌثقة فاضل
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl

   truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيع
   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.