Musnad Ahmad 6439
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ
صَلَاةُ اللَّيْلِ مَثْنَى مَثْنَى، فَإِذَا خِفْتَ الصُّبْحَ فَوَاحِدَةً إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd
- al-Aʿmash
- ʿAṭiyyah b. Saʿd
- Ibn ʿUmar
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "The night prayer is to be performed two by two, and when you fear the dawn, then perform one rak'ah. Indeed, Allah, the Most High, loves the odd number."
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
نرى أن هذا خطأ لأن هذا الحديث رواه جماعة عن عطية ونافع عن ابن عمر وليس في شيء من الأخبار ذكر عطاء ويشبه أن يكون يزيد بن عطاء أراد أن يقول عن عطية فقال عن عطاء والله أعلم
in مسند أحمد, p. 6514
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, he was a Shīʿī who practised concealment (mudallis)d. 111 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in "Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb": also said: the year (127 AH), mentioned by Ibn Qāniʿ, and al-Qarrābعَطِيَّةَ بْنِ سَعْدٍصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان شيعيا مدلساعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), with a good memory (yaḥfaẓ).d. 203 AH, or 204 AH, or 205 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقة يحفظحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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