al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1763
✧ Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Antaki
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: نَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ: نَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْفَزَارِيُّ عَنْ مُغِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ. عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ:
الْوِتْرُ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- ʿUbayd b. Hishām
- Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī
- Mughīrah
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
✧ The witr prayer is not obligatory, but it is the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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- العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 1763
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 126 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 132 AHمُغِيرَةَثقةعن
- ناtrustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 183 AH
- ناtruthful (ṣadūq)d. 241 AH
- حدثناd. 280 AH
- d. 360 AH
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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