Sunan Abi Dawud 1416

The Recommendation To Pray Witr

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حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْتِرُوا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ

Translation

Chain of narrators

The Prophet ﷺ said: Allah is single (witr) and loves what is single, so observe the witr, you who follow the Qur'an.

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al-Albani	Sound	fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid	Sahih	fawazahmed0
Shuayb al-Arnaut	Sahih Lighairihi	fawazahmed0
Zubair Ali Zai	Daif	fawazahmed0

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن
machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1414

ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
عن
ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī
truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
عَاصِمٍصدوق
عن
Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī
Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
عن
Zakariyyā
trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to practice tadlīs (concealment of defects in the chain)d. 147 AH, or: 148 AH, or: 149 AH
زَكَرِيَّاثقة ، وكان يدلس
عن
ʿĪsā b. Yūnus
trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AH
عِيسَىثقة مأمون
أنا
Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā
trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 219 AH, or 220-odd AH
إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة حافظ
حدثنا
Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī
Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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

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