Sahih Muslim 745a
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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وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ وَاسْمُهُ وَاقِدٌ وَلَقَبُهُ وَقْدَانُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَ أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
مِنْ كُلِّ اللَّيْلِ قَدْ أَوْتَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَانْتَهَى وِتْرُهُ إِلَى السَّحَرِ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- Abū Yaʿfūr Wāsmuh Wāqid and Laqabuh Waqdān [Chain 2] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah w Abū Kurayb
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Muslim
- Masrūq
- ʿĀʾishah
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ observed the Witr prayer every night and he completed Witr at the time of dawn.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 223Musnad Ahmad 25331Musnad Ahmad 25693Musnad Ahmad 4860Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 294al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 543
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), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AHمَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. Khalīfah said: died in the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and al-Madāʾinī said: 82 AHمُسْلِمٍثقة فاضلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake، وَأَبُو 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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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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