Musnad Ahmad 761
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
لَيْسَ الْوِتْرُ بِحَتْمٍ كَهَيْئَةِ الصَّلَاةِ، وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
- Sufyān
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
Witr is not a must like regular prayer, but it is a Sunnah that was established by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Notes
ﷺ ﷺ ﷺ
machine translationﷺ ﷺ ﷺ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Strong | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Qawi (Darussalam) | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah.
in مسند أحمد, p. 765
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- 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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.