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Musnad Ahmad 927

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ وَالثَّوْرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

لَيْسَ الْوِتْرُ بِحَتْمٍ كَهَيْئَةِ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ، وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd al-Razzāq
  2. Maʿmar and -al-Thhawrī
  3. Abū Isḥāq
  4. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
  5. ʿAlī

Witr is not a must like the obligatory prayers, but it is a Sunnah established by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Notes

  • ﷺ ﷺ ﷺ

    machine translationﷺ ﷺ ﷺ

Grades by grader

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DarussalamQawi (Darussalam)sunnah.com

What scholars said about it

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  • 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. 934

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Bulughul Maram 366{ لَيْسَ اَلْوِتْرُ بِحَتْمٍ كَهَيْئَةِ اَلْمَكْتُوبَةِ, وَلَكِنْ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -}

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    عن
  2. truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
    عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوق
    عن
  3. 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. 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 AH
    وَالثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
    عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
    حدثنا
  6. 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.

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