al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7647
✧ Muhammad b. Musa al-Istakhri
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْإِصْطَخْرِيُّ، نَا بِشْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْكَرْمَانِيُّ، ثَنَا حَسَّانُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبَانَ بْنِ تَغْلِبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ:
لَيْسَ الْوِتْرُ بِحَتْمٍ، وَلَكِنَّهَا سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Mūsá al-Iṣṭakhrī
- Bishr b. ʿAlī al-Karmānī
- Ḥassān b. Ibrāhīm
- Abān b. Taghlib
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Ḥārith
- ʿAlī
✧ The witr is not obligatory, but it is a sunnah established by the Messenger of God ﷺ.
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- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- al-Shaʿbī called him a liar in his opinions, and he was accused of Rāfiḍism, and there is weakness in his hadithd. 65 AHالْحَارِثِكذبه الشعبي في رأيه ورمي بالرفض ، وفي حديثه ضعفعن
- 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), criticized for Shīʿismd. 140 AH, or 141 AH, or after itأَبَانَ بْنِ تَغْلِبٍثقة , تكلم فيه للتشيععن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 182 AH, or 186 AHحَسَّانُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- بشر بن علي الكرمانينا
- d. 311 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْإِصْطَخْرِيُّحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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