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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
  1. Yaḥyá b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Anbaʾ Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Salmān b. al-Ḥasan al-Faqīh
  2. Yaḥyá b. Jaʿfar
  3. Asmaʿ Anbaʾ Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī
  4. Sufyān
  5. Abū Isḥāq
  6. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
  7. 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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    machine translation- 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

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
    سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), except that he may err in the narrations of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH
    أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّثقة ثبت إلا أنه قد يخطئ في حديث الثوري
    أنبأ
  6. يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ
    قرئ على
  7. أَبُو بَكْرٍ : أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْفَقِيهُ
    أنبأ
  8. يَحْيَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى
    أخبرنا
  9. d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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