Sunan Ibn Majah 1389
What was narrated concerning the night of the middle of Sha’ban
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْخُزَاعِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَالاَ؛ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ؛ أَنْبَأَنَا حَجَّاجٌ؛ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ؛ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ؛ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
فَقَدْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ فَخَرَجْتُ أَطْلُبُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِالْبَقِيعِ رَافِعٌ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، فَقَالَ: «يَا عَائِشَةُ أَكُنْتِ تَخَافِينَ أَنْ يَحِيفَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكِ وَرَسُولُهُ؟» قَالَتْ: قَدْ قُلْتُ: وَمَا بِي ذَلِكَ وَلَكِنِّي ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّكَ أَتَيْتَ بَعْضَ نِسَائِكَ۔ فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَنْزِلُ لَيْلَةَ النِّصْفِ مِنْ شَعْبَانَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَيَغْفِرُ لأَكْثَرَ مِنْ عَدَدِ شَعَرِ غَنَمِ كَلْبٍ۔»
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Khuzāʿī and Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik Abū Bakr
- Yazīd b. Hārūn
- Ḥajjāj
- Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
- ʿUrwah
- ʿĀʾishah
I could not find the Messenger of Allah ﷺ one night. So I went looking for him and ˹found˺ him at Baqīʿ with his head raised toward the sky. Then he said to me: "O ʿĀʾishah, were you afraid that you had been wronged by Allah and His Messenger?" She said that I said: It's not that. However, I thought that you had come to some of your wives. So he said: "Allah ﷻ descends to the lowest sky during the night of the middle of ˹the month of˺ Shaʿbān and then He forgives ˹people˺ more than the number of hair on the sheep of ˹the tribe of Banū˺ Kalb."
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