Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1287
✧ The chapters on voluntary prayer at night
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حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ، وَعَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:
يَعْقِدُ الشَّيْطَانُ عَلَى قَافِيَةِ رَأْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ ثَلَاثَ عُقَدٍ إِذَا هُوَ نَامَ، كُلُّ عُقْدَةٍ يَضْرِبُ عَلَيْهِ يَقُولُ: عَلَيْكَ لَيْلٌ طَوِيلٌ، فَإِنِ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَذَكَرَ اللهَ انْحَلَّتْ عُقْدَةٌ، وَإِنْ تَوَضَّأَ انْحَلَّتْ عُقْدَتَانِ، فَإِذَا صَلَّى انْحَلَّتِ الْعُقَدُ، فَأَصْبَحَ نَشِيطًا طَيِّبَ النَّفْسِ، وَإِلَّا أَصْبَحَ خَبِيثَ النَّفْسِ كَسْلَانَ "
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Chain of narrators
- Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī and ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah Yablugh Bih al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The devil ties three knots on the back of the head of any of you when he sleeps. With each knot he strikes, saying: 'You have a long night ahead.' If he wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is loosened. If he performs wudu, two knots are loosened. If he prays, all the knots are loosened, and he wakes up energetic and good in spirit; otherwise he wakes up evil in spirit and lazy.
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- Qurṭubī
روايتنا الصحيحة عليك ليل طويل
in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 1287
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- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 248 AHوَعَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِلا بأس بهحدثنا
- d. 311 AHابن خزيمة
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