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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 727

✧ The night prayer (tahajjud)

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حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو يَحْيَى الْكُوفِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الشَّامِيِّ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ:

عَدُّ الْآيِ فِي التَّطَوُّعِ، لَا الْفَرِيضَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Ḥasan b. Ḥammād
  2. Abū Yaḥyá al-Kūfī
  3. Abū Saʿīd al-Shāmī
  4. Makḥūl
  5. Wāthilah
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

✧ Counting the verses (for the number of prostrations or length) applies to voluntary prayers, not the obligatory.

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Other narrations of this report

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4927Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4931Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4934Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 4943al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3421al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3423

Narrators

  1. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ al-Laythī
    a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AH
    وَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Makḥūl b. Abī Muslim
    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 AH
    مَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهور
    عن
  3. Abū Saʿīd
    unknown (majhūl)
    أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الشَّامِيِّمجهول
    عن
  4. Abū Yaḥyá al-Ḥimmānī
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, and accused of Irjāʾd. 202 AH
    أَبُو يَحْيَى الْكُوفِيُّصدوق يخطئ ، ورمي بالإرجاء
    حدثنا
  5. Al-Ḥasan b. Ḥammād b. Kusayb
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 241 AH
    الْحَسَنُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍصدوق
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أبو يعلى الموصلي

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