Sunan Ibn Majah 1202
What was narrated concerning Witr at the beginning of the night
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ تَوْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا زَائِدَةُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لأَبِي بَكْرٍ أَىَّ حِينٍ تُوتِرُ قَالَ أَوَّلَ اللَّيْلِ بَعْدَ الْعَتَمَةِ قَالَ فَأَنْتَ يَا عُمَرُ فَقَالَ آخِرَ اللَّيْلِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَأَخَذْتَ بِالْوُثْقَى وَأَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا عُمَرُ فَأَخَذْتَ بِالْقُوَّةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Dāwud Sulaymān b. Tawbah
- Yaḥyá b. Abū Bukayr
- Zāʾidah
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Abu Bakr: ‘When do you pray Witr?’ He said: ‘At the beginning of the night, after ‘Isha’.’ He said: ‘And you, O ‘Umar?’ He said: ‘At the end of the night.’ The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘As for you, O Abu Bakr, you have seized the trustworthy handhold (i.e., you want to be on the safe side), and as for you, O ‘Umar, you have seized strength (i.e., you are confident that you have the resolve to get up and pray Witr).’” Another chain with similar meaning.
Notes
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ تَوْبَةَ أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لأَبِي بَكْرٍ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Good Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1257 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري | Good Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1257 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- ابن الملقن
وإسناده حسن
machine translationIts chain of transmission is good (ḥasan).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1257
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 223Musnad Ahmad 25331Musnad Ahmad 25693Musnad Ahmad 4860Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 294al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 543
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), with some laxity (layyin) in his hadith; it is said that his memory changed towards the end of his life.d. after 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 145 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AHزَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, also said 209 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍثقة .حدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 261 AH, or 262 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ تَوْبَةَصدوقحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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