Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 2947
✧ Perfecting prayer and increasing it night and day, and what has reached us from the righteous predecessors regarding that
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَدِيبَ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ أَعْيَنَ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُقْرِئَ الزَّاهِدَ،
يَقُولُ: كَانَ مَعَنَا شَيْخٌ فِي الرِّبَاطِ يُوقِظُ الْأَصْحَابَ إِذَا مَضَى ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ وَيُرَغِّبُهُمْ فِي الْقِيَامِ لِلتَّهَجُّدِ، فَإِذَا رَأَى مِنْهُمْ نَشَاطًا وَتَسَارُعًا حَمِدَ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَتَلَا آيَاتٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ كَقَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَتَهَجَّدْ بِهِ نَافِلَةً لَكَ} [الإسراء: 79] ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهُ وَيَقُولُ: سَلِ اللَّيْلَ أَهْلُ اللَّيْلِ بِالسَّحَرِ... وَالقَّائِمِينَ بِلَا لَهْوٍ وَلَا سَحَرِ وَالْقَابِضِينَ عَلَى الْأَكْبَادِ أَيْدِيَهُمْ... شَدُّوا الرَّحِيلَ وَهَيئُوا لِلسَّفَرِ، فَإِذا رَأَى مِنْهُمْ تَثَاقُلًا وتَكَاسُلًا يَقُولُ:" مَنْ نَامَ اللَّيْلَ كَثِيرا لَقِيَ اللهَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَقِيرًا، ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهُ وَيَقُولُ: [البحر الوافر] تَنَبَّهْ مِنْ مَنَامِكَ يَا جَهُولُ... فَنَوْمُكَ تَحْتَ رَمْسِكَ قَدْ يَطُولُ تَأَهَّبْ لِلْمَنِيَّةَ حِينَ تَغْدُو... عَسَى تُمْسِي وَقَدْ نَزَلَ الرَّسُولُ"
Translation
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machine translationAbū Zakariyyā b. Abī Isḥāq informed us, he said: I heard al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdillāh al-Adīb say: I heard Muḥammad b. Aʿyan say: I heard Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Muqriʾ al-Zāhid say:
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He says: We had with us in the ribāṭ an old man who would wake the companions when a third of the night had passed and encourage them to rise for the night prayer (tahajjud). When he saw eagerness and haste in them, he praised Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and recited verses from the Qur'an, such as His saying, Mighty and Majestic: {وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَتَهَجَّدْ بِهِ نَافِلَةً لَكَ} [al-Isrā': 79]. Then he would raise his voice and say: Ask the night, the people of the night, at the hour before dawn... and those who stand in prayer without idle play and without sleeplessness, Those who clasp their hands over their livers... tighten the departure and prepare for the journey. And when he saw heaviness and laziness in them, he would say: "Whoever sleeps much of the night will meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection poor." Then he would raise his voice and say: [Meter: al-Wāfir] Wake up from your sleep, O ignorant one... for your sleep beneath your grave may be long. Prepare for death when you set out in the morning... perhaps by evening the messenger will have come down.
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