al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 722
✧ The night prayer (tahajjud)
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، ثَنَا سَعِيدٌ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ الْفِهْرِيِّ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ ؓ قَالَ:
لَقِيتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَعْدَ الْعَتَمَةِ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، ائْذَنْ لِي أَتَعَبَّدْ بِعِبَادَتِكَ.. فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ: فَاسْتَقْبَلَ الْقِبْلَةَ، وَأَقَامَنِي عَنْ يَمِينِهِ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ، ثُمَّ اسْتَفْتَحَ سُورَةَ الْبَقَرَةِ، لَا يَمُرُّ بِآيَةِ رَحْمَةٍ إِلَّا سَأَلَ، وَلَا خَوْفٍ إِلَّا اسْتَعَاذَ، وَلَا مَثَلٍ إِلَّا فَكَّرَ، حَتَّى خَتَمَهَا، ثُمَّ كَبَّرَ، فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ فِي رُكُوعِهِ: سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْعَظِيمِ، حَتَّى أَظُنَّ أَنَّهُ يَقُولُ: وَبِحَمْدِهِ. فَمَكَثَ فِي رُكُوعِهِ قَرِيبًا مِنْ قِيَامِهِ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ، فَكَبَّرَ، فَسَجَدَ، فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ فِي سُجُودِهِ: سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْأَعْلَى. وَأَظُنُّ أَنَّهُ يَقُولُ: وَبِحَمْدِهِ، فَمَكَثَ فِي سُجُودِهِ قَرِيبًا مِنْ رُكُوعِهِ: ثُمَّ نَهَضَ، حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنْ سَجْدَتَيْهِ، فَقَرَأَ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ، ثُمَّ اسْتَفْتَحَ آلَ عِمْرَانَ كَذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ سَمِعْتُ النِّدَاءَ بِالْفَجْرِ. قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ ؓ: فَمَا تَعَبَّدْتُ عِبَادَةً كَانَتْ أَشَدَّ عَلَيَّ مِنْهَا.
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- ʿUmar b. Saʿīd
- Saʿīd
- Makḥūl
- Muḥammad b. Sūwayd al-Fihrī
- Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān
✧ I met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after the night prayer, and I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, permit me to worship as you worship.'... He mentioned the hadith and said: He faced the qiblah and placed me on his right. Then he recited the Opening of the Book, then he began Surah al-Baqarah, not passing by a verse of mercy except that he asked, nor a verse of fear except that he sought refuge, nor a parable except that he reflected, until he completed it. Then he said the takbir, and I heard him say in his bowing: 'Glory be to my Lord, the Almighty,' until I thought he was saying: 'and with His praise.' He remained in his bowing for nearly as long as his standing. Then he raised his head, said the takbir, and prostrated, and I heard him say in his prostration: 'Glory be to my Lord, the Most High.' And I think he was saying: 'and with His praise.' He remained in his prostration for nearly as long as his bowing. Then he rose until he finished his two prostrations, and he recited the Opening of the Book, then he began Al 'Imran in the same way. Then I heard the call to dawn. Hudhayfah ؓ said: 'I have never performed a worship more difficult for me than that.'
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12381al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15988Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 2572Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2867Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2900Musnad al-Bazzar 4470
Narrators
- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. after 100 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ الْفِهْرِيِّصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AHمَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AHسَعِيدٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 151 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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