al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1118
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أَخْبَرْنَاهُ مَيْمُونُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْهَاشِمِيُّ بِبَغْدَادَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ وَالْعَلَاءُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْحَنَفِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الرِّفَاعِيُّ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْكِنْدِيُّ قَالُوا ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ ثنا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ
عَلِيٌّ إِنَّ الْوِتْرَ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ كَصَلَاتِكُمُ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ وَلَكِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَوْتَرَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْتِرُوا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ» وَمِنَ الشَّوَاهِدِ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ مَا
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī
- Aḥmad b. Yūnus and -al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAmr al-Ḥanafī Wamuḥammad b. Yazīd al-Rifāʿī Waʿabd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-Kindī
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
‘Ali ؓ said: Verily, Witr is not a must like your prescribed prayers, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed Witr, then he said: “Pray Witr, O people of the Qurʿan. Pray Witr, for Allah is One and loves that which is odd numbered.” (Using translation from Aḥmad 1262)
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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 المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 1122 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 1122 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
وصححه
machine translationAnd he graded it authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 1122
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةقال
- 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 AHأَبُو إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيححدثنا
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), though his hearing of the biography (sīrah) is sound (ṣaḥīḥ)d. 270 AH or 271 AH or 272 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِضعيف ، وسماعه للسيرة صحيححدثنا
- d. 351 AHمَيْمُونُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْهَاشِمِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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