Jami' at-Tirmidhi 453
What Has Been Related About al-Witr Is Not Incumbent
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
الْوِتْرُ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ كَصَلاَتِكُمُ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ وَلَكِنْ سَنَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ فَأَوْتِرُوا يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Kurayb
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
"Al-Witr is not incumbent like your obligatory prayers, but it is a Sunnah of Messenger of Allah who said: "Indeed Allah is Witr (One), and He loves Al-Witr, so perform Al-Witr O people of the Qur'an."
Notes
قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ وَابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ عَلِيٍّ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح الترمذي, p. 453 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| al-Tirmidhi | Goodin جامع الترمذي, p. 462 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن
machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 462 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 462 - العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 462
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1266وَعَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوَتْرَ فَأَوْتِرُوا يَا أَهْلَ الْقُرْآنِ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَالنَّسَائِيّ
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 العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- 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 AHأَبُو إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهحدثنا
- 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
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة 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
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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