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Sunan Ibn Majah 1766

Concerning Lailatul-Qadr (the night of decree)

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ عَنْ هِشَامٍ الدَّسْتَوَائِيِّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ

اعْتَكَفْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْعَشْرَ الأَوْسَطَ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي أُرِيتُ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فَأُنْسِيتُهَا فَالْتَمِسُوهَا فِي الْعَشْرِ الأَوَاخِرِ فِي الْوَتْرِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. Ismāʿīl Ibn ʿUlayyah
  3. Hishām al-Dastawāʾī
  4. Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
  5. Abū Salamah
  6. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

“We observed I’tikaf with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the middle ten days of Ramadan. He said: ‘I have been shown Lailatul-Qadr, then I was caused to forget it, so seek it in the last ten night, on the odd-numbered nights.’”

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Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
    أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَ ، ج٢ / ص٦٤٩ثقة ، مكثر
    عن
  3. trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
    عن
  4. Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AH
    هِشَامٍ الدَّسْتُوَائِيِّثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدر
    عن
  5. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  6. 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
  7. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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

Commentaries

شرح مشكل الآثار
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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