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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 735

✧ The night prayer (tahajjud)

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وَقَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ قَالَ:

رَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بَصَرَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، ثُمَّ خَفَضَهُ فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، لِمَ صَنَعْتَ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: عَجِبْتُ لِمَلَكَيْنِ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ نَزَلَا إِلَى الْأَرْضِ يَلْتَمِسَانِ عَبْدًا فِي مُصَلَّاهُ فَلَمْ يَجِدَاهُ، ثُمَّ عَرَجَا إِلَى رَبِّهِمَا فَقَالَا: يَا رَبَّنَا، كُنَّا نَكْتُبُ لِعَبْدِكَ الْمُؤْمِنِ فِي يَوْمِهِ وَلَيْلَتِهِ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَوَجَدْنَاهُ قَدْ حَبَسْتَهُ فِي حِبَالَتِكَ فَلَمْ نَكْتُبْ لَهُ شَيْئًا، فَقَالَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: اكْتُبُوا لِعَبْدِي عَمَلَهُ فِي يَوْمِهِ وَلَيْلَتِهِ، وَلَا تُنْقِصُوهُ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا، عَلَيَّ أَجْرُهُ، احْتَبَسْتُهُ، فَلَهُ أَجْرُ مَا كَانَ يَعْمَلُ

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Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Dāwud
  2. Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥumayd
  3. ʿAwn b. ʿAbdullāh
  4. his father
  5. Ibn Masʿūd

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his gaze to the sky, then lowered it. We said, “O Messenger of Allah, why did you do that?” He said, “I was amazed at two angels who descended to the earth seeking a servant in his prayer place, but they did not find him. Then they ascended to their Lord and said, ‘Our Lord, we used to record for Your believing servant such-and-such deeds in his day and night, but we found that You had detained him in Your snare, so we did not record anything for him.’ So He, Blessed and Exalted, said, ‘Record for My servant his deeds of his day and night, and do not diminish anything from them. Upon Me is his reward, for I detained him, and he shall have the reward of what he used to do.’”

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