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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1697

How to pray witr with three rak'ahs

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍ قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ

سَأَلَ عَائِشَةَ أُمَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كَيْفَ كَانَتْ صَلاَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي رَمَضَانَ قَالَتْ مَا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَزِيدُ فِي رَمَضَانَ وَلاَ غَيْرِهِ عَلَى إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ رَكْعَةً يُصَلِّي أَرْبَعًا فَلاَ تَسْأَلْ عَنْ حُسْنِهِنَّ وَطُولِهِنَّ ثُمَّ يُصَلِّي أَرْبَعًا فَلاَ تَسْأَلْ عَنْ حُسْنِهِنَّ وَطُولِهِنَّ ثُمَّ يُصَلِّي ثَلاَثًا قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَتَنَامُ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُوتِرَ قَالَ يَا عَائِشَةُ إِنَّ عَيْنِي تَنَامُ وَلاَ يَنَامُ قَلْبِي

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Salamah and -al-Ḥārith b. Miskīn Qirāʾah ʿAlayh
  2. Asmaʿ Wa-al-Lafẓ Lah
  3. Ibn al-Qāsim
  4. Mālik
  5. Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī
  6. Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman

He asked Aishah, the Mother of the Believers, about how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray in Ramadan. She said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not pray more than eleven rak'ahs during Ramadan or at any other time. He would pray four, and do not ask how beautiful or how long they were. Then he would pray four, and do not ask how beautiful or how long they were. Then he would pray three." Aishah said: "I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, do you sleep before you pray witr?' He said: 'O Aishah, my eyes sleep but my heart does not.'"

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 138Sahih al-Bukhari 2013Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2861al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 392al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4506

Narrators

  1. ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
    Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    سأل
  2. Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثر
    أخبره
  3. Saʿīd al-Maqburī
    Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
    عن
  4. Mālik b. Anas
    The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
    مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
    حدثني
  5. Ibn al-Qāsim
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 191 AH
    ابْنِ الْقَاسِمِثقة
    عن
  6. wa-al-Ḥārith b. Miskīn
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 248 AH or 249 AH or 250 AH
    وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍثقة فقيه
    قراءة عليه وأنا أسمع
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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Commentaries

Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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