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Sahih Muslim 749i

The night prayers are two by two, and Witr is one rakah at the end of the night

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

صَلاَةُ اللَّيْلِ مَثْنَى مَثْنَى فَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ أَنَّ الصُّبْحَ يُدْرِكُكَ فَأَوْتِرْ بِوَاحِدَةٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná
  2. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. ʿUqbah b. Ḥurayth
  5. Ibn ʿUmar Yuḥaddith
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The night prayer consists of pairs and when you see the approach of dawn, make this number odd by one rak'ah. It was said to Ibn 'Umar: What does the (word) pair imply? He said: (It means) that salutation is uttered after every two rak'ahs.

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Narrators

  1. محمد بن المثنى العنزي
  2. محمد بن جعفر الهذلي
  3. شعبة بن الحجاج العتكي
  4. عقبة بن حريث التغلبي
  5. عبد الله بن عمر العدوي