Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 399
✧ The recommendation of delaying the night prayer when a person does not fear falling asleep before it
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ مُوسَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
مَكَثْنَا ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ نَنْتَظِرُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ لِصَلَاةِ الْعِشَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْنَا حَتَّى ذَهَبَ ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ، وَلَا نَدْرِي أَيُّ شَيْءٍ شَغَلَهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ أَوْ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ حِينَ خَرَجَ: إِنَّكُمْ لَتَنْتَظِرُونَ صَلَاةً مَا يَنْتَظِرُهَا أَهْلُ دِينٍ غَيْرُكُمْ، وَلَوْلَا أَنْ يَثْقُلَ عَلَى أُمَّتِي لَصَلَّيْتُ بِهِمْ هَذِهِ السَّاعَةَ "، ثُمَّ أَمَرَ الْمُؤَذِّنَ فَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ فَصَلَّى ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir
- Abū Bakr
- Yūsuf b. Mūsá
- Jarīr
- Manṣūr
- al-Ḥakam
- Nāfiʿ
- Ibn ʿUmar
✧ We stayed one night waiting for the Messenger of God ﷺ for the later night prayer. He came out to us when a third of the night had passed, and we did not know what had kept him—something with his family or otherwise. When he came out, he said: You are waiting for a prayer that no people of a religion other than you wait for. Were it not that it would be heavy upon my community, I would pray with them at this hour. Then he ordered the muezzin, and he commenced the prayer, and he prayed.
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