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739. 'Aīshah narrated: "I could not find the Messenger of Allāh one night. So I left and found him at Al-Baqī".[1] He said: 'Did you fear you had been wronged by Allāh and His Messenger?' I said: 'O Messenger of Allāh! I thought that you had gone to one of your wives.'
So he said: 'Indeed Allāh, Mighty and Sublime is He, descends to the lowest Heavens during the night of the middle of Sha'bān, to grant forgiveness to more than the number of hairs on the sheep of (Banū) Kalb.'" (Ḍa'īf)
There is something on this topic from Abū Bakr Aṣ-Ṣiddīq.
Abū 'Eisā said: We do not know of the Ḥadīth of 'Aishah except by this route, from the narration of Al-Hajjāj, and I heard Muḥammad saying that this Ḥadīth is weak. He said: "Yaḥya bin Abī Kathīr did not hear from 'Urwah." Muḥammad said: "Al-Hajjāj did not hear from Yaḥya bin Abī Kathīr."
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[1] A place on the outskirts of Al-Madinah that is known for its graveyard.
Commentary
Imām Suyūṭī, Abū Tālib Makki, Imām Ghazālī and Shaikh Abdul Qādir Jilānī quoted many weak and denounced narrations in favor of the virtue of the fifteenth night of Sha'bān, and all these narrations are baseless. (Ma'ārif As-Sunan: 5/319). Banū Kalb was an Arab tribe, who owned more goats than all the Arab tribes.
