Sahih Muslim 719c
It is recommended to pray Duha, the least of which is two rakʿah, the best of which is eight, and the average of which is four or six, and encouragement to do so regularly
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وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبٍ الْحَارِثِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ أَنَّ مُعَاذَةَ الْعَدَوِيَّةَ حَدَّثَتْهُمْ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الضُّحَى أَرْبَعًا وَيَزِيدُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Ḥabīb al-Ḥārithī
- Khālid b. al-Ḥārith
- Saʿīd
- Qatādah
- Muʿādhah al-ʿAdawiyyah Ḥaddathathum
- ʿĀʾishah
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to observe four rak'ahs in the forenoon prayer and he sometimes observed more as Allah pleased.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1310وَعَن معَاذَة قَالَتْ: سَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ: كَمْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي صَلَاةَ الضُّحَى؟ قَالَتْ: أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ وَيَزِيدُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ. رَوَاهُ مُسلم
- Shahih Muslim 719aأَنَّهَا سَأَلَتْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ كَمْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي صَلاَةَ الضُّحَى قَالَتْ أَرْبَعَ رَكَعَاتٍ وَيَزِيدُ مَا شَاءَ
- Shahih Muslim 719dحَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ مِثْلَهُ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1403al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4252Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7877al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4977Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 289
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 83 AHمُعَاذَةَ الْعَدَوِيَّةَثقةحدثتهم
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHسَعِيدٍثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 186 AH.خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِثقة ثبت.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 248 AH, also said: after 250 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبٍ الْحَارِثِيُّثقةحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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