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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- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AHنَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AHالْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AHمَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 253 AHيُوسُفُ بْنُ مُوسَىصدوقحدثنا
- d. 311 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ
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