al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 1707
✧ The first obligation of prayer
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ، ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ، ثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ: أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى عَائِشَةَ فَقَالَ:
يَا أُمَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنْبِئِينِي عَنْ قِيَامِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَتْ: أَلَسْتَ تَقْرَأُ يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُزَّمِّلُ قَالَ قُلْتُ: بَلَى، قَالَ فَقَالَتْ: فَإِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى افْتَرَضَ الْقِيَامَ فِي أَوَّلِ هَذِهِ السُّورَةِ فَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَصْحَابُهُ حَوْلًا حَتَّى انْتَفَخَتْ أَقْدَامُهُمْ، وَأَمْسَكَ اللهُ خَاتِمَتَهَا اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ شَهْرًا فِي السَّمَاءِ، ثُمَّ أَنْزَلَ اللهُ تَعَالَى التَّخْفِيفَ فِي آخِرِ هَذِهِ السُّورَةِ، فَصَارَ قِيَامُ اللَّيْلِ تَطَوُّعًا بَعْدَ فَرِيضَةٍ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAffān
- Muḥammad b. Bishr al-ʿAbdī
- Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah
- Qatādah
- Zurārah b. Abū Awfá
- Saʿd b. Hishām
- ʿĀʾishah
Machine translation, not reviewed
"O Mother of the Believers, inform me about the night prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." She said: "Do you not recite {يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُزَّمِّلُ}?" He said: I said: "Yes." She said: "Indeed, Allah the Exalted made the night prayer obligatory at the beginning of this sura, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions stood in prayer for a year until their feet swelled. Allah withheld its conclusion in the heavens for twelve months, then Allah the Exalted revealed the relief at the end of this sura, and the night prayer became voluntary after having been obligatory."
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- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقادخل على
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AHسَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 93 AH, or: 108 AH, also said: 106 AHزُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَىثقة ، عابدعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 203 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ الْعَبْدِيُّثقة حافظحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 270 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَصدوقحدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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