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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1725

How to pray witr with nine rak'ahs

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أَخْبَرَنَا هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ أُرَاهُ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي مِنَ اللَّيْلِ تِسْعَ رَكَعَاتٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Hannād b. al-Sarī
  2. Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
  3. al-Aʿmash Urāh
  4. Ibrāhīm
  5. al-Aswad
  6. ʿĀʾishah

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray nine rak'ahs at night."

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
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al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 443كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُصَلِّي مِنَ اللَّيْلِ تِسْعَ رَكَعَاتٍ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 1162وَعَن عبد الله بن شَقِيق قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ تَطَوُّعِهِ فَقَالَتْ: كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِي بَيْتِي قَبْلَ الظُّهْرِ أَرْبَعًا ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ فَيُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ ثُمَّ ي
  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 1360كَانَ يُصَلِّي مِنَ اللَّيْلِ تِسْعَ رَكَعَاتٍ
  • Shahih Muslim 730aسَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ صَلاَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ تَطَوُّعِهِ فَقَالَتْ كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِي بَيْتِي قَبْلَ الظُّهْرِ أَرْبَعًا ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ فَيُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ ثُمَّ يَدْخُلُ فَيُصَلِّي رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَكَانَ يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ الْمَ
  • Shahih Muslim 730dسَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ صَلاَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِاللَّيْلِ فَقَالَتْ كَانَ يُصَلِّي لَيْلاً طَوِيلاً قَائِمًا وَلَيْلاً طَوِيلاً قَاعِدًا وَكَانَ إِذَا قَرَأَ قَائِمًا رَكَعَ قَائِمًا وَإِذَا قَرَأَ قَاعِدًا رَكَعَ قَاعِدًا

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 24689Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8576Musnad Abi Ya'la 4792Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 272Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 273

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. al-Aswad b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī
    Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AH
    الْأَسْوَدِمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيه
    عن
  3. Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
    عن
  4. al-Aʿmash
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  5. Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 179 AH
    أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة , متقن , صاحب حديث
    عن
  6. Hannād
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AH
    هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّثقة
    أخبرنا
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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