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Musnad Ahmad 969

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَجَّاجُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَعَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ

سُئِلَ عَنِ الْوِتْرِ أَوَاجِبٌ هُوَ ؟ قَالَ: أَمَّا كَالْفَرِيضَةِ فَلَا، وَلَكِنَّهَا سُنَّةٌ صَنَعَهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَصْحَابُهُ حَتَّى مَضَوْا عَلَى ذَلِكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  2. al-Ḥajjāj
  3. Abū Isḥāq
  4. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrahaʿan ʿAlī

It is not like the obligatory prayer, but it is a Sunnah that was done by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions, and they continued doing it until the end of their lives.

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