Sunan an-Nasa'i 1669
How to pray at night
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَبِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يُسْأَلُ عَنْ صَلاَةِ اللَّيْلِ فَقَالَ مَثْنَى مَثْنَى فَإِذَا خِفْتَ الصُّبْحَ فَأَوْتِرْ بِرَكْعَةٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr
- Sufyān
- Ibn Abū Labīd
- Abū Salamah
- Ibn ʿUmar
"I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the minbar, when he was asked about prayers at night, say: "Two by two, then if you fear that dawn will come, pray witr with one rak'ah.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1668 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14013al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14022Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37552al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4643al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4843Musnad al-Bazzar 5450
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 للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, or 130-odd AHابْنِ أَبِي لَبِيدٍثقة رمي بالقدرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقةأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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