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Sahih al-Bukhari 996

The timing of the Salat-ul-Witr (Witr prayer)

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حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُسْلِمٌ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

كُلَّ اللَّيْلِ أَوْتَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَانْتَهَى وِتْرُهُ إِلَى السَّحَرِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ
  2. my father
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Muslim
  5. Masrūq
  6. ʿĀʾishah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ offered witr prayer at different nights at various hours extending (from the ʿIsha' prayer) up to the last hour of the night.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 1186مِنْ كُلِّ اللَّيْلِ قَدْ أَوْتَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ أَوَّلِهِ وَأَوْسَطِهِ وَانْتَهَى وِتْرُهُ إِلَى السَّحَرِ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 1261وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: مِنْ كُلَّ اللَّيْلِ أَوْتَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ أَوَّلِ اللَّيْلِ وَأَوْسَطِهِ وَآخِرِهِ وَانْتَهَى وَتْرُهُ إِلَى السَّحَرِ
  • Shahih Muslim 745bمِنْ كُلِّ اللَّيْلِ قَدْ أَوْتَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ أَوَّلِ اللَّيْلِ وَأَوْسَطِهِ وَآخِرِهِ فَانْتَهَى وِتْرُهُ إِلَى السَّحَرِ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AH
    مَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرم
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. Khalīfah said: died in the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and al-Madāʾinī said: 82 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة فاضل
    حدثني
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AH
    أَبِيثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخر
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 222 AH
    عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍثقة ربما وهم
    حدثنا
  7. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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