Sunan Ibn Majah 1195
What was narrated concerning the two Rak’ah sitting down after Witr
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مَيْمُونُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْمَرَئِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أُمِّهِ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ
كَانَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْوِتْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ خَفِيفَتَيْنِ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Ḥammād b. Masʿadah
- Maymūn b. Mūsá al-Maraʾī
- al-Ḥasan
- his mother
- Um Salamah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
It was narrated from Umm Salamah that the Prophet ﷺ used to pray two short Rak’ah after Witr, sitting down.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | SoundAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده مقال
machine translationThere is some criticism (maqāl) of its chain of transmission.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1250 - العقيلي
ذكر أن ميمونا تفرد برفعه وغيره يرويه موقوفا على أم سلمة
machine translationHe mentioned that Maymūn was alone in narrating it as raised to the Prophet (marfūʿ), while others narrate it as stopped at Umm Salamah (mawqūf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1250
Same hadith, other wordings
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 471كَانَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْوِتْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 1131أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْجُمُعَةِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ
- Misykatul Mashabih 1284وَعَنْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «كَانَ يُصَلِّي بَعْدَ الْوِتْرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ» رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَزَادَ ابْنُ مَاجَه: خفيفتين وَهُوَ جَالس
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 746cSunan Ibn Majah 1191Musnad Ahmad 24777Sahih Ibn Hibban 2642aSahih Ibn Hibban 2644al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8090
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AHأُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنينعن
- acceptable (maqbūlah)أُمِّهِمقبولةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (mudallis)d. between 151 and 160 AHمَيْمُونُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْمَرَئِيُّصدوق مدلسحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 202 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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