Jami' at-Tirmidhi 454
What Has Been Related About al-Witr Is Not Incumbent
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وَرَوَى سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ وَغَيْرُهُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
الْوِتْرُ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ كَهَيْئَةِ الصَّلاَةِ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ وَلَكِنْ سُنَّةٌ سَنَّهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
Ali said: "Al-Witr is not incumbent like the status of the obligatory prayers, but it is a Sunnah which Messenger of Allah practiced."
Notes
حَدَّثَنَا بِذَلِكَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ وَهَذَا أَصَحُّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ مَنْصُورُ بْنُ الْمُعْتَمِرِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ نَحْوَ رِوَايَةِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
|---|---|---|
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 454 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
أصح من حديث أبي بكر بن عياش
in جامع الترمذي, p. 463 - 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. 463 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 463
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 453Sunan Ibn Majah 1169Sunan ad-Darimi 1620al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4527al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1118
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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHعبد الرحمن بن مهديثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمحمد بن بشار بندارثقةحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
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