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
- Hannād b. al-Sarī
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim / Ibn Ḍamrah
- 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).'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح النسائي, p. 1674 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 377{ أَوْتِرُوا يَا أَهْلُ اَلْقُرْآنَ, فَإِنَّ اَللَّهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ اَلْوِتْرَ }
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1417Musnad Ahmad 1232Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4609al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4528al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4530
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- 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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- 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 AHأَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيحعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AHهَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّثقةأخبرنا
- 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
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