al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 728
✧ The night prayer (tahajjud)
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وَقَالَ عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَتَسَوَّكُ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثًا، كُلَّمَا رَقَدَ وَاسْتَيْقَظَ: اسْتَاكَ، وَتَوَضَّأَ، وَرَكَعَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، أَوْ رَكَعَاتٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd
- Yaʿlá b. ʿUbayd
- Abū Bakr al-Madanī
- Jābir
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to use the toothstick at night two or three times. Whenever he slept and woke, he would use the toothstick, perform ablution, and pray two rak'ahs or a few rak'ahs.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه أبو بكر المديني وثقه ابن حبان وضعفه ابن معين وجماعة
in المطالب العالية, p. 728
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 23540al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12246al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13995al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4068al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 711
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- there is softness in him (layyin).d. between 141 and 150 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْمَدَنِيُّفيه لين .حدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except in his hadith from al-Thawrī, in which there is softness.d. 209 AH, also said: 207 AH.يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقة إلا في حديثه عن الثوري ففيه لين .حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة حافظ
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