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
Other narrations of this report
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 57 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 110 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 129 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقةعن
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 197 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظحدثنا
- حدثنالا بأس بهd. 248 AH
- d. 311 AH
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