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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1676

The command to pray witr

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أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِي نُعَيْمٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ

الْوِتْرُ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ كَهَيْئَةِ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  2. Abū Nuʿaym
  3. Sufyān
  4. Abū Isḥāq
  5. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
  6. ʿAlī

"Witr is not essential like the obligatory prayers, but it is the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح النسائي, p. 1675fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

    عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد

    machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah.

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1677

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 453Sunan Ibn Majah 1169Sunan ad-Darimi 1620al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4527al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1118

Narrators

  1. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    عن
  2. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
    عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوق
    عن
  3. Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī
    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. Sufyān al-Thawrī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
    سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    عن
  5. Abū Nuʿaym
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AH
    أَبِي نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  6. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 264 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة
    أخبرني
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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