Sunan Ibn Majah 1169
What was narrated concerning Witr
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ السَّلُولِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ
إِنَّ الْوِتْرَ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ وَلاَ كَصَلاَتِكُمُ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ وَلَكِنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَوْتَرَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْتِرُوا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad and Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabaāḥ
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī
- ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
“Witr is not definite (obligatory) nor is it like your prescribed prayers. But the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed Witr, then he said: ‘O people of the Qur’an! Perform Witr, for Allah is Witr and He loves the odd (numbered).’” Meaning 'one' which is the first of the odd numbers; He is unique, and there is nothing like Him, similar or equal.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 967 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1223
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1417Musnad Ahmad 1232Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 4609al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4528al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4530
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةقال
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ السَّلُولِيِّصدوقعن
- 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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيححدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 240 AHوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِصدوقحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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 Abū Daʿūd
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