English translation
6316. Narrated Ibn 'Abbās رضي الله عنهما: One night I slept at the house of Maimūna. (During the night) the Prophet ﷺ woke up, answered the call of nature, washed his face and hands, and then slept. He got up (late at night), went to a water-skin, opened the mouth thereof and performed ablution not using much water, yet he washed all the body-parts properly and then offered the Ṣalāt (prayer). I got up and straightened my back in order that the Prophet ﷺ might not feel that I was watching him, and then I performed the ablution, and when he got up to offer the Ṣalāt (prayer), I stood on his left. He caught hold of my ear and brought me over to his right side. He offered thirteen Rak'a in all and then lay down and slept till he started blowing out his breath as he used to do when he slept. In the meantime Bilāl informed the Prophet ﷺ of the approaching time for the (Fajr) Ṣalāt, and the Prophet ﷺ offered the Fajr Ṣalāt without performing new ablution. He used to say in his invocation, "Allāhumma ij'al fi qalbī nūran, wa fi baṣari nūran, wa fi sam'i nūran, wa 'an yamīnī nūran, wa 'an yasāri nūran, wa fawqī nūran, wa taḥtī nūran, wa amāmī nūran, wa khalfī nūran, waj'al li nūran."(1) Kuraib (a subnarrator) said, "I have forgotten seven other words, (which the Prophet ﷺ mentioned in this invocation). I met a man from the offspring of Al-'Abbās and he narrated those seven things to me, mentionning, '(Let there be light in) my nerves, my flesh, my blood, my hair and my body,' and he also mentioned two other things."(2)