Sunan ad-Darimi 1620
✧ In al-Witr
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حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَاصِمَ بْنَ ضَمْرَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا يَقُولُ
«إِنَّ الْوِتْرَ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ كَالصَّلَاةِ وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةٌ فَلَا تَدَعُوهُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAffān
- Shuʿbah
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
✧ I heard Ali saying, "Verily, Witr (a specific prayer) is not obligatory like the regular prayers, but it is a recommended act, so do not neglect it."
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What scholars said about it
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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 مسند الدارمي, p. 1616
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمَ بْنَ ضَمْرَةَصدوقسمعت
- 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 retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AHعَفَّانُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.