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Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
A man who lived in the desert asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the prayer at night. He made a sign with his two fingers-in this way in pairs. The witr consists of one rak'ah towards the end in...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The witr is a duty for every Muslim so if anyone wishes to observe it with five rak'ahs, he may do so; if anyone wishes to observe it with three, he may do so, and if...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to observe witr with (reciting) "Glorify the name of thy Lord, the most High" (Surah 87), "Say O disbelievers" (Surah 109), and "Say, He is Allah, the One, Allah, the eternally besought of all"...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
AbdulAziz ibn Jurayj said: I asked Aisha, mother of the believers: With which (surah) the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to observe witr? (She reported same as in the Hadith of Ubayy ibn Ka'b, No. 1418) This version adds: In...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) taught me some words that I say during the witr. (The version of Ibn Jawwas has: I say them in the supplication of the witr.) They were: "O Allah, guide me among those Thou hast...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The version has the words: "He would recite the supplication of the witr." He did not mention the words: "I say them in the witr." Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu al-Hawra' is Rabi'ah b. Shaiban.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to say at the end of his witr: "O Allah, I seek refuge in Thy good pleasure from Thy anger, and in Thy forgiveness from Thy punishment, and I seek refuge in Thy mercy...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Muhammad reported on the authority of some of his teachers that Ubayy b. Ka'b led them in prayer during Ramadan. He used to recite the supplication (in the witr) during the second half of Ramadan.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Al-Hasan reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab gathered the people (in tarawih prayer) behind Ubayy ibn Ka'b (who led them). He used to lead them for twenty days (during Ramadan, and would not recite the supplication except in the second half of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered salutation in the witr prayer, he said: Glorify be to the king most holy.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone oversleeps and misses the witr, or forgets it, he should pray when he remembers.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
My friend (i.e. the Prophet) instructed me to observe three practices that I do not leave while traveling nor while resident, to pray two rak`ahs in the forenoon, to fast three days every month and not to sleep but after...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
My friend (i.e. the Prophet) instructed me to observe three practices which I never leave: he instructed me to fast three days every month, and not to sleep but after observing the witr, and to observe supererogatory prayer in the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
The Prophet (ﷺ) asked AbuBakr: When do you observe the witr? He replied: I observe the witr prayer in the early hours of the night. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked Umar: When do you observe the witr? He replied: At the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
I asked 'Aishah: When would the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observe the witr prayer ? She replied: Any time he observed the witr, sometimes in the early hours of the night, sometimes at midnight and sometimes towards the end of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Make haste to observe the witr prayer before morning.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
I asked 'Aishah about the witr observes by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). She replied: Sometime he observed the witr prayer in the early hours of the night, sometimes he observed it at the end of it. I asked: How...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Make the last of your prayer at night a witr.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
Qays ibn Talq said: Talq ibn Ali visited us on a certain day during Ramadan. He remained with us till evening and broke fast with us. He then stood up and led us in the witr prayer. He then went...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr
By Allah, I shall offer prayer like that of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The narrator said: Abu Hurairah used to recite the supplication in the last rak'ah of the noon, night and dawn prayers. He would supplicate for the...