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Sunan Ibn Majah 1366

What was narrated concerning which hours of the night are best

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّ وَيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ وَأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَغَرِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

يَنْزِلُ رَبُّنَا تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى حِينَ يَبْقَى ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ الآخِرُ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ فَيَقُولُ مَنْ يَسْأَلُنِي فَأُعْطِيَهُ؟ مَنْ يَدْعُونِي فَأَسْتَجِيبَ لَهُ؟ مَنْ يَسْتَغْفِرُنِي فَأَغْفِرَ لَهُ؟ حَتَّى يَطْلُعَ الْفَجْرُ فَلِذَلِكَ كَانُوا يَسْتَحِبُّونَ صَلاَةَ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ عَلَى أَوَّلِهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Marwān Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī and Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib
  2. Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd
  3. Ibn Shihāb
  4. Abū Salamah Waʾabī ʿAbdullāh al-Aghar
  5. Abū Hurayrah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Our Lord, the Blessed and Exalted, descends when one third of the night remains, every night and He says: ‘Who will ask of Me, that I may give him? Who will call upon Me, that I may answer him? Who will ask My forgiveness, that I may forgive him?’ until dawn comes.” Hence they used to prefer voluntary prayers at the end of the night rather than at the beginning.

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 1132fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • أبو الوليد الباجي

    أجاز مالك التحديث بها لأن أحاديث صحاح لم يطعن في شيء منها

    machine translationMālik permitted narrating them, because they are sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadiths, none of which has been criticized.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1427
  • Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

    رواية ينزل الله تعالى حين يبقى ثلث الليل الآخر هذا أصح الروايات

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1427

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 758cMusnad Ahmad 17915Musnad al-Bazzar 2327Musnad al-Bazzar 3435al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10262al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10271

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
    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
    ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī
    Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
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  5. Abū Marwān Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. end of 240 AH, or the beginning of the year 241 AH
    أَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّصدوق يخطئ
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  6. Ibn Mājah
    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

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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