Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers
'Aishah was asked about the actions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Did he perform some actions exclusively on some particular days ? She said: No, he performed his actions regularly. Which of you has the strength as much as...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to commend prayer at night during Ramadan, but did not command it as duty. He would say: If anyone prays during the night in Ramadan because of faith and seeking his reward from Allah,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone fasts during Ramadan because of faith and in order to seek his reward from Allah, his previous sins will be forgiven to him. If anyone prays in the night of the power (lailat...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
That the Prophet (ﷺ) once offered (tarawih) prayer in the mosque and the people also prayed along with him. He then prayed on the following night, and the people gathered in large numbers. They gathered on the third night too,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The people used to pray (tarawih prayer) in the mosque during Ramadan severally. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded me (to spread a mat). I spread a mat for him and he prayed upon it. The narrator then transmitted the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
We fasted with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) during Ramadan, but he did not make us get up at night for prayer at any time during the month till seven nights remained; then he made us get up for prayer...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
When the last ten days of Ramadan came, the Prophet (ﷺ) kept vigil and prayed during the whole night, and tied the wrapper tightly, and awakened his family (to pray during the night). Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out and saw that the people were praying during (the night of) Ramadan in the corner of the mosque. He asked: Who are these people ? It was said to him that those were...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
I said to Ubayy b. Ka'b: Tell me about lailat al-qadr, O Abu al-Mundhir, for our companion (Ibn Mas'ud) was questioned about it, and he said: Anyone who gets up for prayer every night all the year round will hit...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
I was present at the gathering of Banu Salamah, and I was the youngest of them. They (the people) said: Who will ask the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for us about Laylat al-Qadr? That was the twenty-first of Ramadan. I...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
I said to the Messenger of Allah: I have a place in the desert where I live and in which I pray, with the praise of Allah; but give me command about a night when I come to this mosque....
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Seek laitat al-Qadr in the last ten night of Ramadan. When nine (nights) remain (i.e. on the twenty first) , when seven (night) remain (i.e. on the twenty third), and when five (nights) remain (i.e....
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to spend the middle ten days of Ramadan in retirement and devotion (i'tikaf) in the mosque. One year he had retirement and devotion in the mosque (as usual); when the twenty-first night came, and...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Seek it (laylat al-Qadr) in the last ten days of Ramadan. Seek it on the ninth, seventh and fifth night. I (AbuNadrah) said: You know counting better than us, AbuSa'id. He said: Yes. I asked: What...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to us: Seek it (laylat al-Qadr) on the seventeenth night of Ramadan, and on the twenty first night, and on the twenty-third night. He then kept silence.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Seek lailat al-qadr in the last seven days.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Lailat al-qadr is the twenty-seventh night (of Ramadan)
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked about lailat al-qadr and I was hearing: He said: It is during the whole of Ramadan. Abu Dawud said: Sufyan and Shu'bah narrated this tradition from Abu Ishaq as a statement of Ibn...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying to him: Complete the recitation of the Qu'ran in one month. He said: I have more strength. He (the Prophet) said: Complete the recitation in twenty days. He again said: I have more energy. He...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: Keep fast for three days of month, and finish the recitation of the Qur'an in one month. I and he differed among ourselves on period of time. He said: Fast one day...