سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa'i — Hadith 1694
Compiled by Imam an-Nasa'i
Arabic Text
قَالَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍ قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ قَالَمَنْ شَاءَ أَوْتَرَ بِسَبْعٍ وَمَنْ شَاءَ أَوْتَرَ بِخَمْسٍ وَمَنْ شَاءَ أَوْتَرَ بِثَلَاثٍ وَمَنْ شَاءَ أَوْتَرَ بِوَاحِدَةٍ وَمَنْ شَاءَ أَوْمَأَ إِيمَاءً
English Translation
Telah berkata [Al Harits bin Miskin] secara baca dan aku mendengarnya dari [Sufyan] dari [Az Zuhri] dari ['Atha bin Yazid] dari [Abu Ayyub] dia berkata; "Barangsiapa ingin, hendaklah ia shalat witir tujuh rakaat. Barangsiapa ingin. hendaklah ia shalat witir lima rakaat. Barangsiapa ingin, hendaklah ia shalat witir tiga rakaat. Barangsiapa ingin, hendaklah ia shalat witir satu rakaat, dan barangsiapa ingin hanya sekedar dengan isyarat maka hendaklah ia menggunakan isyarat."
About Sunan an-Nasa'i
Born
215 AH / 829 CE — Nasa, Turkmenistan
Died
303 AH / 915 CE
Imam an-Nasa'i applied the strictest conditions of all Sunan compilers. He first wrote a larger collection (as-Sunan al-Kubra) then condensed it into al-Mujtaba. He was particularly rigorous in identifying weaknesses in narrator chains, resulting in a collection of very high reliability.
An-Nasa'i's conditions for accepting narrators were stricter than those of Abu Dawud and at-Tirmidhi, making al-Mujtaba one of the most critically refined of the Sunan collections.
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