مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad of Abū Ḥamzah Anas ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī, the Servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
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مُسْنَدُ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ خَادِمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 183
Ḥumayd reported:
“Anas [ibn Mālik] was asked about the night prayer of the Prophet ﷺ. He said: ‘Whenever we wished to see him praying, we would see him praying; and whenever we wished to see him sleeping, we would see him sleeping.’”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 183
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ قَالَ: سُئِلَ أَنَسٌ عَنْ صَلَاةِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِاللَّيْلِ، فَقَالَ: «مَا كُنَّا نَشَاءُ أَنْ نَرَاهُ مُصَلِّيًا إِلَّا رَأَيْنَاهُ، وَلَا نَائِمًا إِلَّا رَأَيْنَاهُ».
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Chain: Aḥmad → Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān → Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl → Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān al-Baṣrī: thiqa mutqin, d. 198 AH. (2) Ḥumayd ibn Abī Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl al-Baṣrī: thiqa, d. 142 AH. (3) Anas ibn Mālik: Companion, d. ca. 93 AH. Takhrīj: Al-Bukhārī (1141); Muslim (738); Aḥmad (12129). The answer corrects an assumption on the part of the questioner that the Prophet ﷺ prayed the whole night through. Anas describes instead a night divided between prayer and rest, varying with circumstance, which the scholars cite as evidence that the night prayer is not an obligation upon the community and that a sustainable portion is preferable to an unsustainable one.
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