Sahih Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 168-174
Sahih Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 168-174
Chapter 18: Night prayer, and the one who sleeps and misses it or
is sick.
Sa'd b. Hisham b. 'Amir
decided to participate in the expedition for the sake of Allah, so he came to
Medina and he decided to dispose of his property there and buy arms and horses
instead and fight against the Romans to the end of his life. When he came to Medina,
he met the people of Medina. They dissuaded him to do such a thing, and
informed him that a group of six men had decided to do so during the lifetime
of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade them to do
it, and said:
Is there not for you a
model pattern in me? And when they narrated this to him (Sa'd b. Hisham), he
returned to his wife, though he had divorced her and made (people) witness to
his reconciliation. He then came to Ibn 'Abbas and asked him about the Witr of
the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Ibn 'Abbas said: Should I not lead you to one who
knows best amongst the people of the world about the Witr of the Messenger of
Allah (ﷺ)? He said: Who is it? He (Ibn 'Abbas) said: It is 'A'isha. So go to
her and ask her (about Witr) and then come to me and inform me about her answer
that she would give you. So I came to Hakim b. Aflah and requested him to take
me to her. He said: I would not go to her, for I forbade her to speak anything
(about the conflict) between the two groups, but she refused (to accept my
advice) and went (to participate in that conflict). I (requested) him (Hakim)
with an oath to lead me to her. So we went to 'A'isha and we begged permission
to meet her. She granted us permission and we went in. She said: Are you Hakim?
(She recognised him) He replied: Yes. She said: Who is there with you? He said:
He is Sa'd b. Hisham. She said: Which Hisham? He said: He is Hisham b. 'Amir.
She blessed him ('Amir) with mercy from Allah and spoke good of him (Qatada
said that he died as a martyr in Uhud). I said: Mother of the Faithful, tell me
about the character of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). She said: Don't you read the
Qur'an? I said: Yes. Upon this she said: The character of the Messenger of
Allah (ﷺ) was the Qur'an. He said: I felt inclined to get up and not ask
anything (further) till death. But then I changed my mind and said: Inform me
about the observance (of the night prayer) of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). She
said: Did you not recite:" O thou wrapped up"? He said: Yes. She
said: Allah, the Exalted and the Glorious, made the observance of the night
prayer at the beginning of this Surah obligatory. So the Messenger of Allah (Peace
Be Upon Him) and his Companions around him observed this (night prayer) for one
year. Allah held back the concluding portion of this Surah for twelve months in
the Heaven till (at the end of this period) Allah revealed the concluding
verses of this Surah which lightened (the burden of this prayer), and the night
prayer became a supererogatory prayer after being an obligatory one. I said:
Mother of the Faithful, inform me about the Witr of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).
She said: I used to prepare tooth stick for him and water for his ablution, and
Allah would rouse him to the extent He wished during the night. He would use
the tooth stick, and perform ablution, and would offer nine rak'ahs, and would
not sit but in the eighth one and would remember Allah, and praise Him and
supplicate Him, then he would get up without uttering the salutation and pray
the ninth rak'ah. He would then sit, remember, praise Him and supplicate Him
and then utter a salutation loud enough for us to hear. He would then pray two
rak'ahs sitting after uttering the salutation, and that made eleven rak'ahs. O
my son, but when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) grew old and put on flesh, he
observed Witr of seven, doing in the two rak'ahs as he had done formerly, and
that made nine. O my son, and when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed prayer,
he liked to keep on observing it, and when sleep or pain overpowered him and
made it impossible (for him) to observe prayer in the night, he prayed twelve
rak'ahs daring the day. I am not aware of Allah's Prophet (ﷺ) having recited
the whole Qur'an during one single night, or praying through the night till
morning, or fasting a complete month, except Ramadan. He (the narrator) said: I
then went to Ibn 'Abbas and narrated to him the hadith (transmitted from her),
and he said: She says the truth If I went to her and got into her presence, I
would have listened to it orally from her. He said: If I were to know that you
do not go to her. I would not have transmitted this hadith to you narrated by
her. (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 168)
Zurara b. Aufa
said that Sa'd b. Hisham divorced his wife, and then proceeded to Medina to
sell his property, and the rest of the hadith is the same. (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 169)
Sa'd b. Hisham reported:
I went to 'Abdullah b.
'Abbas and asked him about the Witr prayer, and the rest of the hadith is the
same as recorded in this event. She (Hadrat 'A'isha) said: Who is that Hisham?
I said: Son of 'Amir. She said: What a fine man 'Amir was! He died as a martyr
in the Battle of Uhud. (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 170)
Sahih Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 168-174
Zurara b. Aufa reported
that Sa'd b. Hisham was his neighbour and he informed him that he had divorced
his wife and he narrated the hadith like the one transmitted by Sa'd. She
('A'isha) said:
Who is Hisham? He said: The
son of 'Amir. She said: What a fine man he was; he participated in the Battle
of Uhud along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Hakim b. Aflah said: If I ever
knew that you do not go to 'A'isha, I would not have informed you about her
hadith (So that you would have gone to her and heard it from her orally). (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 171)
'A'isha reported
that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) missed the night prayer due to pain or any
other reason, he observed twelve rak'ahs during the daytime. (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 172)
'A'isha reported
that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) decided upon doing any act, he continued
to do it, and when he slept at night or fell sick he observed twelve rak'ahs
during the daytime. I am not aware of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) observing prayer
during the whole of the night till morning, or observing fast for a whole month
continuously except that of Ramadan. (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 173)
'Umar b. Khattab reported
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Should anyone fall asleep
and fail to recite his portion of the Qur'an, or a part of it, if he recites it
between the dawn prayer and the noon prayer, it will be recorded for him as
though he had recited it during the night. (Sahih
Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 174)
Sahih Muslim Book 6 – Hadith 168-174
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