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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1714

How to pray witr with five rak'ahs, and the differences reported from al-Hakam in the hadith about Witr

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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ مِقْسَمٍ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسٍ وَبِسَبْعٍ لاَ يَفْصِلُ بَيْنَهَا بِسَلاَمٍ وَلاَ بِكَلاَمٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah
  2. Jarīr
  3. Manṣūr
  4. al-Ḥakam
  5. Miqsam
  6. Um Salamah

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray witr with five and seven rak'ahs which he did not separate with any taslim nor talk."

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1713fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AH
    أُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنين
    عن
  2. truthful (ṣadūq), and he used to narrate with omission of the intermediary (yursil)d. 101 AH
    مِقْسَمٍصدوق ، وكان يرسل
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AH
    الْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلس
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
    مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
    عن
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
    جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
    حدثنا
  6. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
    أخبرنا
  7. 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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