Sahih Muslim 1167f

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ observed i'tikaf in the middle ten days of Ramadan to seek Lailat-ul-Qadr before it was made manifest to him. When (these nights) were over, he commanded to strike the tent. Then it was made manifest to him that (Lailat-ul-Qadr) was in the last ten nights (of Ramadan), and commanded to pitch the tent (again). He then came to the people and said: O people, Lailat-ul-Qadr was made manifest to me and I came out to inform you about it that two persons came contending with each other and there was a devil along with them and I forgot it. So seek it in the last ten nights of Ramadan. Seek it on the ninth, on the seventh and on the fifth. I (one of the narrators) said: Abu Sa'id, you know more than us about numbers. He said: Yes, indeed we have better right than you. I said: What is this ninth, seventh, and fifth? He said: When twenty-one (nights are over) and the twenty-second begins, it is the ninth, and when twenty-three (nights) are over, that which follows (the last night) is the seventh, and when twenty-five nights are over, what follows it is fifth. Ibn Khallad said: Instead of the word Yahliqan (contending), he said Yakhtasiman, (they are disputing).

Notes

• قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ إِنَّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِالْعَدَدِ مِنَّا قَالَ أَجَلْ نَحْنُ أَحَقُّ بِذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ مَا التَّاسِعَةُ وَالسَّابِعَةُ وَالْخَامِسَةُ قَالَ إِذَا مَضَتْ وَاحِدَةٌ وَعِشْرُونَ فَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا ثِنْتَيْنِ وَعِشْرِينَ وَهْىَ التَّاسِعَةُ فَإِذَا مَضَتْ ثَلاَثٌ وَعِشْرُونَ فَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا السَّابِعَةُ فَإِذَا مَضَى خَمْسٌ وَعِشْرُونَ فَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا الْخَامِسَةُ وَقَالَ ابْنُ خَلاَّدٍ مَكَانَ يَحْتَقَّانِ يَخْتَصِمَانِ

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Sahih Muslim 1167cSahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2450al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14975al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14977al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 95

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   al-Mundhir b. Mālik al-ʿAwqī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. During the governorship of Ibn Hubayrah (103–105 AH), or 108 AH, or 109 AH
   أَبِي نَضْرَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Jurayrī

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) three years before his deathd. 144 AH
   سَعِيدٌثقة ، اختلط قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Aʿlā

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 184 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 189 AH
   عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَىثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Bakr b. Khallād al-Bāhilī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 240 AH, also said: 239 AH, also said: 249 AH, also said: 257 AH
   وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ خَلَّادٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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