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Sunan Ibn Majah 1190

What was narrated concerning Witr with three, five, seven, or nine Rak’ah

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْفِرْيَابِيُّ عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الأَنْصَارِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

الْوِتْرُ حَقٌّ فَمَنْ شَاءَ فَلْيُوتِرْ بِخَمْسٍ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَلْيُوتِرْ بِثَلاَثٍ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَلْيُوتِرْ بِوَاحِدَةٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī
  2. al-Firyābī
  3. al-Awzāʿī
  4. al-Zuhrī
  5. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī
  6. Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Witr is Haqq. Whoever wishes let him pray Witr with five (Rak’ah), and whoever wishes let him pray Witr with three (Rak’ah), and whoever wishes let him pray Witr with one (Rak’ah).”

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What scholars said about it

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  • محمد بن يحيى بن أبي حاتم

    وروي عن عطاء بن يزيد مرسلا قلت لأبي أيهما أصح مرسل أو متصل قال لا هذا ولا هذا هو من كلام أبي أيوب

    machine translationIt was also narrated from ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd as a mursal report (mursal): I said to my father, "Which of them is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ), the mursal or the connected (muttaṣil)?" He said, "Neither this nor that; it is from the words of Abū Ayyūb."

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1245

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1707al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3151al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4880Sunan al-Daraqutni 1641al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1348al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 410

Narrators

  1. Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
    One of the senior Companions.d. 50 AH. Or: 52 AH. Or: 55 AH, also said: 51 AH.
    أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّمن كبار الصحابة.
    عن
  2. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 107 AH
    عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّثقة
    عن
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī
    trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
    الْأَوْزَاعِيِّثقة جليل
    عن
  5. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
    trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AH
    الْفِرْيَابِيُّثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاق
    حدثنا
  6. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ibrāhīm
    trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 245 AH
    عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّثقة حافظ متقن
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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