Sahih Muslim 740
Night prayers and the number of rakʿah offered by the Prophet ﷺ at night, and that Witr is one rakʿah, and a one-rakʿah prayer is correct
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ حَدَّثَنَا عَمَّارُ بْنُ رُزَيْقٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي مِنَ اللَّيْلِ حَتَّى يَكُونَ آخِرَ صَلاَتِهِ الْوِتْرُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʾAbū Kurayb
- Yaḥyá b. Ādam
- ʿAmmār b. Ruzayq
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Aswad
- ʿĀʾishah
'A'isha observed that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to observe prayer in the night and the last of his (night) prayer was Witr.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 6189Musnad Ahmad 6372al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4905Musnad al-Bazzar 5421al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1126
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
- Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AHالْأَسْوَدِمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 159 AHعَمَّارُ بْنُ رُزَيْقٍلا بأس بهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 203 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَثقة حافظ فاضلحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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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