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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1675

The command to pray witr

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أَخْبَرَنَا هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ

أَوْتَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْتِرُوا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ ﷻ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Hannād b. al-Sarī
  2. Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
  3. Abū Isḥāq
  4. ʿĀṣim / Ibn Ḍamrah
  5. ʿAlī

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "O people of the Qur'an, pray witr, for Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, is Witr (One) and loves Al-Witr (the odd numbered).'"

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح النسائي, p. 1674fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Bulughul Maram 377{ أَوْتِرُوا يَا أَهْلُ اَلْقُرْآنَ, فَإِنَّ اَللَّهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ اَلْوِتْرَ }

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    عن
  2. truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
    عَاصِمٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ضَمْرَةَصدوق
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
    أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AH
    أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيح
    عن
  5. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AH
    هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّثقة
    أخبرنا
  6. the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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