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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1715

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 الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ دِينَارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ مِقْسَمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُوتِرُ بِسَبْعٍ أَوْ بِخَمْسٍ وَلاَ يَفْصِلُ بَيْنَهُنَّ بِتَسْلِيمٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Qāsim b. Zakariyyā b. Dīnār
  2. ʿUbaydullāh
  3. Isrāʾīl
  4. Manṣūr
  5. al-Ḥakam
  6. Miqsam
  7. Ibn ʿAbbās
  8. Um Salamah

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray witr with seven or five (rak'ahs), not separating between them with the taslim."

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
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al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1714fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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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

  1. Umm Salamah Hind bt. Abū Umayyah
    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. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  3. Miqsam b. Bajrah
    truthful (ṣadūq), and he used to narrate with omission of the intermediary (yursil)d. 101 AH
    مِقْسَمٍصدوق ، وكان يرسل
    عن
  4. al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah al-Kindī
    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
  5. Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
    مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
    عن
  6. Isrāʾīl
    Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
    إِسْرَائِيلَثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
    عن
  7. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Mūsā
    Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AH
    عُبَيْدُ اللهِثقة ، كان يتشيع
    حدثنا
  8. Al-Qāsim b. Zakariyyā b. Dīnār
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. around 250 AH
    الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة
    أخبرنا
  9. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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