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Sunan Ibn Majah 1364

What was narrated concerning which hours of the night are best

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ طَلْقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْبَيْلَمَانِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبَسَةَ قَالَ

أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ مَعَكَ قَالَ حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ قُلْتُ هَلْ مِنْ سَاعَةٍ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ أُخْرَى قَالَ نَعَمْ جَوْفُ اللَّيْلِ الأَوْسَطُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and Muḥammad b. Bashhār Wamuḥammad b. al-Walīd
  2. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. Yaʿlá b. ʿAṭāʾ
  5. Yazīd b. Ṭalq
  6. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Baylamānī
  7. ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah

“I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, who became a Muslim with you?’ He said: ‘A free man and a slave.’ I said: ‘Is there any hour of the night that is closer to Allah than another?’ He said: ‘Yes, the last half of the night.’”

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0).hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautDaiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

    عبد الرحمن بن البيلماني قيل لا يعرف أنه سمع من أحد من الصحابة إلا من سرف ويزيد بن طلق قال ابن حبان يروي المراسيل

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1425

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. a well-known Companiond. in the last years of the caliphate of ʿUthmān
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 91 and 100 AH
    عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْبَيْلَمَانِيِّ ، ج٢ / ص٣٨٣ضعيف
    عن
  3. unknown (majhūl)
    يَزِيدَ بْنِ طَلْقٍمجهول
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH, or after it
    يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍثقة
    عن
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
    حدثنا
  7. trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  8. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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