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791. 'Āishah narrated: "When the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ wanted to perform I'tikāf, he would perform the Fajr prayer and then he would enter his place of I'tikāf." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadīth was reported in Mursal form, by Yaḥya bin Sa'eed, from 'Amrah, from the Prophet ﷺ. Mālik and others reported it as a Mursal narration from Yaḥya bin Sa'eed (from 'Amrah). Al-Awzā'ī reported it from Sufyān Ath-Thawrī (and others) from Yaḥya bin Sa'eed, from 'Amrah, from 'Āishah.
This Hadīth is acted upon according to some of the people of knowledge. They say when a man wants to perform I'tikāf he prays
Fajr then he enters his place of I'tikāf. This is the view of Ahmad bin Hanbal and Ishāq bin Ibrāhīm. Some of them said that when he wants to perform I'tikāf, then when the sun sets on the night prior to the morning that he intends to begin his I'tikāf, he should be sitting in the place of his I'tikāf. This is the view of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, and Mālik bin Anas.
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Commentary
Majority scholars, the three A'immah, Abū Hanīfah, Mālik and Shāfi'i are of the view that I'tikāf starts from the twenty first night of Ramaḍān and the person who is going to make I'tikāf should enter the mosque before sunset, one statement of Imām Ahmad is the same, and this is the correct view.
