What Part Of The Night Is Best (For Prayer)?
Darussalam · Volume 2
5. The Book Of The Voluntary PrayersSunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 1315 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 34
Source no. 1315 · Volume 1 · Page 2
Sahih
صحيح
Source no. 1188 · Volume 5 · Page 61
Sahih chain
(قلت: إسناده صحيح على شرط الشيخين. وقد أخرجه البخاري بإسناد المؤلف، وأخرجه هو أيضًا ومسلم وأبو عوانة في "صحاحهم"، وصححه الترمذي)
Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
1315. Abū Hurairah reported that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Every night, when only a third of the night remains, Our Lord, Exalted and Blessed is He, descends to the skies of the earth (the lower skies). He says: 'Who is there that is calling to Me, that I may respond to him? Who is asking Me, that I may give him? Who is seeking My forgiveness, that I may forgive him?" (Sahih)
1315 - حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَعَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَغَرِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: " يَنْزِلُ رَبُّنَا تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ إِلَى سَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا حِينَ يَبْقَى ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ الْآخِرُ، فَيَقُولُ: مَنْ يَدْعُونِي فَأَسْتَجِيبَ لَهُ؟ مَنْ يَسْأَلُنِي فَأُعْطِيَهُ؟ مَنْ يَسْتَغْفِرُنِي فَأَغْفِرَ لَهُ؟ "
Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
1. The latter part of night is best for voluntary prayer and supplication. 2. The people of knowledge of Ahl As-Sunnah wal-Jamā'ah say that Hadīths describing Allāh are narrated as they are, and believed in, without saying how or like, and without denying them or giving interpretations that strip their meanings.