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1720. Mu'âdh bin Hishâm said: "My father narrated to me, from Qatâdah, from Zurârah bin Awfa, from Sa'd bin Hishâm, that 'Aishah said: 'When the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ prayed Witr with nine Rak'ahs, he did not sit until the eight Rak'ah. Then he would praise Allâh and remember Him and supplicate, then he would get up and he won't say the Taslîm, then he prayed the ninth, then he sat and remembered Allâh and supplicated. Then he said a Taslîm that we could hear. Then he prayed two Rak'ahs sitting down. When he grew older and weaker, he prayed Witr with seven Rak'ahs and did not sit until the sixth. Then he got up and did not say the Taslîm, and prayed the seventh, then he said the Taslîm, then he prayed two Rak'ahs sitting down." (Shâhîh)
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It becomes known that there are two distinct forms of offering seven for Witr. One may continue rising after each unit, and sit at the end of the seventh unit, or one may sit at the end of both the sixth and the seventh units, but conduct salutation at the end of the seventh unit only. Both forms are permissible, and this is the reconciliation between the two narrations: Allâh's Messenger ﷺ sometimes adopted the former form and sometimes the latter.
