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
- Qutaybah
- Jarīr
- Manṣūr
- al-Ḥakam
- Miqsam
- 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."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1713 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Bukhari
طعن فيه بانقطاعه
in سنن النسائي, p. 1715
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1338Sunan ad-Darimi 1622Sahih Ibn Hibban 2440al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4877al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1424al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 420
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AHأُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), and he used to narrate with omission of the intermediary (yursil)d. 101 AHمِقْسَمٍصدوق ، وكان يرسلعن
- 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 AHالْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AHمَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلسعن
- 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 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- 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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