Sahih Muslim 731a
It is permissible to offer voluntary prayers standing or sitting, and to stand and sit in the same rakʿah
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وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَيْدٍ ح قَالَ وَحَدَّثَنَا حَسَنُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ جَمِيعًا عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
مَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقْرَأُ فِي شَىْءٍ مِنْ صَلاَةِ اللَّيْلِ جَالِسًا حَتَّى إِذَا كَبِرَ قَرَأَ جَالِسًا حَتَّى إِذَا بَقِيَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ السُّورَةِ ثَلاَثُونَ أَوْ أَرْبَعُونَ آيَةً قَامَ فَقَرَأَهُنَّ ثُمَّ رَكَعَ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī
- Ḥammād / Ibn Zayd [Chain 2] Ḥasan b. al-Rabīʿ
- Mahdī b. Maymūn [Chain 3] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Wakīʿ [Chain 4] Abū Kurayb
- Ibn Numayr Jamīʿ
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah [Chain 5] Zuhayr b. Ḥarb and -al-Lafẓ Lah
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah
- my father
- ʿĀʾishah
I did not see the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reciting (the Qur'an) in the night prayer in a sitting position, till he grew old and then he recited (it) in a sitting position, but when thirty or forty verses were left out of the Surah, he would then stand up, recite them and then bowed.
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 374Musnad Ahmad 24840Sahih Ibn Hibban 2633Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3944Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3945Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4127
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 مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHأَبِيثقة فقيه مشهورأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AHابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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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al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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