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It is the best of the nawafil prayers
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah r.a: “The Messenger of Allah s.a.w said:
Í—Ú›ÏvªA ÂΩ‰zÙØÚA‰À ,¬Ïj‰Z¿٪A ÍA ÂjÊ»‰q ‰∆B‰v‰ø‰i ‰fÊ®‰I ¯¬B‰ŒvªA ÂΩ‰zÙØÚC
.¯ΩÊŒ˙ºªA Û—Ú›‰u Í“‰zÊÕ¯jÚ∞ÙªA ‰fÊ®‰I
“The most excellent fast after Ramadan is in the months that Allah
declared as sacred (Allah’s months), and the most excellent prayer after
what is prescribed is prayer in the depth of the night.”
(Sahih Muslim and in Musnad Ahmad)
(The four sacred months are Dhul-Qa'dah, Dhul-Hijjah, Muharram, and
the fourth is Rajab.)
Salim bin Abdullah bin Umar Ibn al-Khathab, may Allah be please with
them, related from his father that the Messenger s.a.w said:
.¯ΩÊŒ˙ºªA ‰≈Íø ”˛º‰vÂÕ ‰∆BÚ∑ ÊÃÚª ÍA ÂfÊJß ÂΩÂUÏjªA ‰¡Ê®Í√
“The best of man is Abdullah because he (likes to) prays every night.”
Salim further said:
.ı›ÊŒÍŒÚ≥ ˙‹Ḡ ¯ΩÊŒ˙ºªA ‰≈Íø ¬B‰ƒ‰Õ Ú‹ Úπͪ‰g ‰fÊ®‰I ÍA ÂfÊJ‰ß ‰∆BÚ∏ÚØ
“Abdullah slept but a little at night from that moment onwards.”
An unanimously accepted hadith.
From Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As r.a. who narrated that the Prophet
s.a.w said to me:
.¯ΩÊŒ˙ºªA Ú∫B‰ŒÍ≥ Ú∫‰j‰NÚØ ‰œÊŒ˙ºªA ¬ÃÛ¥Õ ‰∆BÚ∑ ˘∆Ú›ÛØ ‰ΩÊRÍø Ê≈Û∏‰M Ú‹ ÍA ‰fÊJ‰ß B‰Õ
“O Abdullah! Do not be like so and so who used to pray at night and
then stopped the night prayer.”
In Sahih al-Bukhari also a unanimously accepted hadith
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