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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1717

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 إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ

كَانَ يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسٍ وَلاَ يَجْلِسُ إِلاَّ فِي آخِرِهِنَّ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  3. Sufyān
  4. Hishām b. ʿUrwah
  5. his father
  6. ʿĀʾishah
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ used to pray witr with five and he did not sit except in the last (rak'ah) of them.

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1716fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    ذكر قوم من رواة هذا الحديث عن هشام أنه كان يوتر ذلك بخمس لا يجلس في شيء من الخمس ركعات إلا في آخرهن رواه حماد بن سلمة وأبو عوانة ووهيب وغيرهم وأكثر الحفاظ رووه عن هشام كما رواه مالك والرواية المخالفة له إنما حدث بها عن هشام أهل العراق وما حدث به هشام قبل خروجه إلى العراق أصح عندهم

    machine translationA group of the narrators of this hadith from Hishām mentioned that he used to pray the Witr with five rakʿahs, not sitting in any of the five rakʿahs except in the last of them. Ḥammād b. Salamah, Abū ʿAwānah, Wuhayb and others narrated it. Most of the memorizers (ḥuffāẓ) narrated it from Hishām as Mālik narrated it, and the narration that differs from it was only reported from Hishām by the people of Iraq. What Hishām narrated before his departure to Iraq is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) in their view.

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1718

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. 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
    عن
  2. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
    هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
    عن
  4. Sufyān al-Thawrī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
    سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    عن
  5. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
    عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
    أنبأنا
  6. Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt)d. 251 AH
    إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة ، ثبت
    أخبرنا
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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