al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 724
✧ The night prayer (tahajjud)
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ مَعْرُوفٍ، ثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، حَدَّثَنِي مَخْرَمَةُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ:
ذَكَرْتُ الْقِيَامَ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: نِصْفُهُ رُبُعُهُ فُوَاقَ حَلْبِ نَاقَةٍ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Hārūn b. Maʿrūf
- Ibn and Hb
- Makhramah b. Bukayr
- Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ I mentioned the night prayer, and some of them said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Half of it, a quarter of it, or the interval between two milkings of a camel."
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Narrators
- بَعْضُهُمْفي حكم العنعنة
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. Ibn Qāniʿ dated it: 158 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 159 AHمَخْرَمَةُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍصدوقحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AHابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AH, or: 243 AHهَارُونُ بْنُ مَعْرُوفٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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