Sahih Muslim 753
The night prayers are two by two, and Witr is one rakah at the end of the night
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وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَبِي مِجْلَزٍ قَالَ
سَأَلْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ الْوِتْرِ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ رَكْعَةٌ مِنْ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
- ʿAbd al-Ṣamad
- Hammām
- Qatādah
- Abū Mijlaz
I asked Ibn 'Abbas about the Witr prayer. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: It is a rak'ah at the end of the night prayer.
Notes
وَسَأَلْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ رَكْعَةٌ مِنْ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ
machine translationAnd I asked Ibn ʿUmar, and he said: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: "One rakʿah at the end of the night."
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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
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرسألت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 106 AH, also said: 109 AHأَبِي مِجْلَزٍثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AHهَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهمحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), reliable (thabt) in the narrations of Shuʿbahd. Ibn Ḥibbān said 206 AH or 207 AHعَبْدُ الصَّمَدِصدوق , ثبت في شعبةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبتحدثني
- 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
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