Sunan an-Nasa'i 1698
How to pray witr with three rak'ahs
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أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَى عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ حَدَّثَتْهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ
كَانَ لاَ يُسَلِّمُ فِي رَكْعَتَىِ الْوَتْرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd
- Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal
- Saʿīd
- Qatādah
- Zurārah b. Awfá
- Saʿd b. Hishām
- ʿĀʾishah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Aishah told him: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not say the taslim for two rak'ahs during witr."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Shadh | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Shadh | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Albani
احتج به ، وقال في المقدمة: (لم نحتج إلا بخبر صحيح من رواية الثقات مسند)
in ضعيف سنن النسائي, p. 1697
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6667Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 6906al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4891Sunan al-Daraqutni 1665al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1140
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاحدثته
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AHسَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 93 AH, or: 108 AH, also said: 106 AHزُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَىثقة ، عابدعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHسَعِيدٌثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 186 AH, or 187 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِثقة ، ثبت ، عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 248 AH, in al-Ṣarīfīnī's « book »: died in the year 242 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍثقةأخبرنا
- 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
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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