al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 785
✧ The witr prayer
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وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: نَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو نَعَامَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي تَمِيمَةَ قَالَ:
كَانَ أَبُو مُوسَى ؓ إِذَا صَلَّى بِنَا الْغَدَاةَ يُقْرِئُنَا، فَأَتَى عَلِيٌّ ؓ، فَسَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ إِلَى جَنْبِي عَنِ الْوِتْرِ، فَقَالَ: ثَلَاثٌ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ وَاحِدَةٍ، وَخَمْسٌ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ ثَلَاثٍ، وَسَبْعٌ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَمْسٍ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Shuʿbah
- Abū Naʿāmah
- Abū Tamīmah
✧ Abu Musa ؓ, when he led us in the morning prayer, would make us recite. Then 'Ali ؓ came, and a man beside me asked him about witr. He said: 'Three is more beloved to me than one, and five is more beloved to me than three, and seven is more beloved to me than five.'
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1707al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3151al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4880Sunan al-Daraqutni 1641al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1348al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 410
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةفقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 95 AH, or 97 AH, said by al-Wāqidī, or 99 AHأَبِي تَمِيمَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AHأَبُو نَعَامَةَثقةحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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