Sunan Ibn Majah 1170

Translation

“Allah is Witr and He loves the odd (numbered), so perform Witr, O people of the Qur’an.” A Bedouin said: ‘What is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying?’ He said: ‘That is not for you or your companions.’”

Notes

• فَقَالَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ مَا يَقُولُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " لَيْسَ لَكَ وَلاَ لأَصْحَابِكَ

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• Dāraquṭnī

  المرسل هو المحفوظ

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  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1224

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1417Musnad Ahmad 1232Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4609al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4528al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4530

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 81 AH, also said: 82 AH, and al-Dhahabī was certain of it
   أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Murrah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
   عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Abū Ḥafṣ al-Abbār

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he used to memorize, and he became blindd. 190 AH, during the reign of Hārūn
   أَبُو حَفْصٍ الْأَبَّارُصدوق وكان يحفظ وقد عمي
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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