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458. 'Aishah narrated: "The night prayer of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ was thirteen Rak'ah, five of which were his Witr, not sitting in any of them except at the end of them. When the Mu'adh-dhin called the Adhān he would stand to perform two light (Rak'ah)." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There is a narration about this from Abū Ayyūb.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of 'Aishah is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
Some of the people of knowledge, among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others, held the view that Al-Witr was five [Rak'ah]. They said that one has to sit (for Tashah-hud) only in the last Rak'ah.
[Abū 'Eisā said: I asked Abū Maṣ'ab Al-Madānī about this Hadīth, that the Prophet ﷺ would perform Al-Witr with nine and
seven, so I said: "How would one perform Al-Witr with nine and seven?" He said: "He would pray two, then two, and says the Taslim, then makes it Witr with one."]
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Commentary
Imām Shāfi'i, Sufyān Ath-Thawrī and some other A'immah hold this view that while offering five Rak'ah Witr the sitting of Tashah-hud will be made at the end of the fifth Rak'ah and this is what the Hadīth implies.
