al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2262
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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) يَحْيَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْفَقِيهُ، قَالَ: قُرِئَ عَلَى يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ:
الْوِتْرُ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Anbaʾ Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Salmān b. al-Ḥasan al-Faqīh
- Yaḥyá b. Jaʿfar
- Asmaʿ Anbaʾ Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī
- Sufyān
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
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The Witr prayer is not obligatory, but it is a Sunnah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ established.
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- ﷺ
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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 سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 2262
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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 and reliable (thiqah thabt), except that he may err in the narrations of al-Thawrīd. 203 AHأَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّثقة ثبت إلا أنه قد يخطئ في حديث الثوريأنبأ
- d. 275 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍقرئ على
- d. 348 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ : أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْفَقِيهُأنبأ
- d. 414 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَىأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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