Sunan an-Nasa'i 1626
With what should prayer at night begin?
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ أَنَّ رَجُلاً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
قُلْتُ وَأَنَا فِي سَفَرٍ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَاللَّهِ لأَرْقُبَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِصَلاَةٍ حَتَّى أَرَى فِعْلَهُ فَلَمَّا صَلَّى صَلاَةَ الْعِشَاءِ وَهِيَ الْعَتَمَةُ اضْطَجَعَ هَوِيًّا مِنَ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَنَظَرَ فِي الأُفُقِ فَقَالَ { رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَذَا بَاطِلاً } حَتَّى بَلَغَ { إِنَّكَ لاَ تُخْلِفُ الْمِيعَادَ } ثُمَّ أَهْوَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ فَاسْتَلَّ مِنْهُ سِوَاكًا ثُمَّ أَفْرَغَ فِي قَدَحٍ مِنْ إِدَاوَةٍ عِنْدَهُ مَاءً فَاسْتَنَّ ثُمَّ قَامَ فَصَلَّى حَتَّى قُلْتُ قَدْ صَلَّى قَدْرَ مَا نَامَ ثُمَّ اضْطَجَعَ حَتَّى قُلْتُ قَدْ نَامَ قَدْرَ مَا صَلَّى ثُمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَفَعَلَ كَمَا فَعَلَ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَقَالَ مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ فَفَعَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ قَبْلَ الْفَجْرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Salamah
- Ibn and Hb
- Yūnus
- Ibn Shihāb
- Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf
- a man Min Aṣḥāb al-Nabī ﷺ
"Humaid bin Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf told me that a man from among the companions of the Prophet ﷺ said: 'I said, when I was on a journey with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: By Allah (SWT), I am going to watch the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and see what he does. When he prayed 'Isha, he lay down for a long time. Then he woke up and looked toward the horizon and said: "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this without purpose" until he reached: "for You never break (Your) Promise." Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached across his bed and took a siwak from it, then he poured water from a vessel and cleaned his teeth. Then he stood and prayed until I said: He has prayed for as long as he has slept. Then he lay down until I said: He has slept as long as he prayed. Then he woke up and did the same as he had done the first time and said the same as he had said. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did that three times before Fajr.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih Isnaad | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sound Chainin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1625 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1209وَعَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ قَالَ: أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ وَأَنَا فِي سَفَرٍ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: وَاللَّهِ لَأَرْقُ
Other narrations of this report
Muwatta' Malik 48-9al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8967al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1322
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابيقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah).d. 95 AH, also said 105 AH, which is an errorحُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍثقة.حدثني
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AHيُونُسَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AHابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابدأنبأنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 248 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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