Sahih Muslim 719a
It is recommended to pray Duha, the least of which is two rakʿah, the best of which is eight, and the average of which is four or six, and encouragement to do so regularly
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حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي الرِّشْكَ حَدَّثَتْنِي مُعَاذَةُ
أَنَّهَا سَأَلَتْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ كَمْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي صَلاَةَ الضُّحَى قَالَتْ أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ وَيَزِيدُ مَا شَاءَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Shaybān b. Farrūkh
- ʿAbd al-Wārith
- Yazīd / al-Rishk
- Muʿādhah
that he asked 'A'isha ؓ how many rak'ahs Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed at the forenoon prayer. She replied: Four rak'ahs, but sometimes more as he pleased.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1310وَعَن معَاذَة قَالَتْ: سَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ: كَمْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي صَلَاةَ الضُّحَى؟ قَالَتْ: أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ وَيَزِيدُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ. رَوَاهُ مُسلم
- Shahih Muslim 719cكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الضُّحَى أَرْبَعًا وَيَزِيدُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ
- Shahih Muslim 719dحَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ مِثْلَهُ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1403al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4252Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7877al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4977Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 289
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاسألت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 83 AHمُعَاذَةُثقةحدثتني
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, whoever considered him soft (layyin) erred.d. 130 AH.يَزِيدُ - يَعْنِي الرِّشْكَ -ثقة عابد ، وهم من لينه .حدثنا
- trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AHعَبْدُ الْوَارِثِثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), has lapses (wahm), and accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 235 AH, or 236 AH, or 237 AH, or 238 AHشَيْبَانُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَصدوق يهم , ورمي بالقدرحدثنا
- 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 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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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)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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