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'A'ishah's
Hadith, may Allah be pleased with her.
Zurarah
reported:
Sa'd bin Hisham bin 'Amir
decided to participate in an expedition in the cause of Allah. When he came to
Medina,
he met some of its people. They dissuaded him from doing such a thing, and informed him that a group of six men had decided to do so during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) forbade them to do it, and asked: Is there not in me a good example for you? And when they narrated this to him (Sa'd bin Hisham), he returned to his wife, though he had divorced her and made (people) witness to his reconciliation. He then came to
Ibn 'Abbas
and asked him about the Witr of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him).
Ibn 'Abbas
asked: Should I not lead you to one who knows best among the people of the world about the Witr of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)? He asked: Who is it? He (Ibn 'Abbas) said: It is
'A'ishah.
So go to her and ask her (about Witr) and then come to me and inform me about the answer that she would give you. So I came to
Hakim bin Aflah
and requested him to take me to her. He said: I would not go to her, for I forbade her to speak anything (about the conflict) between the two groups, but she refused (to accept my advice) and went (to participate in that conflict). I (requested) him (Hakim) with an oath to lead me to her. So we went to
'A'ishah
and we begged permission to meet her. She granted us permission and we went in. She asked: Are you
Hakim?
(She recognized him). He replied: Yes. She asked: Who is there with you? He said: He is
Sa'd bin Hisham.
She asked: Which
Hisham?
He said: He is
Hisham bin 'Amir.
She blessed him ('Amir) with mercy from Allah and spoke good of him
(Qatadah
said that he died as a martyr in
Uhud).
I said: Mother of the Believers, tell me about the character of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). She asked: Do you not read the Qur'an? I said: Yes. Upon this she said: The character of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was the Qur'an. He said: I felt inclined to get up and not ask anything (further) till I die. But then I changed my mind and said: Inform me about the observance (of the Night Prayer) of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). She asked: Did you not recite: "O you wrapped up"? He said: Yes. She said: Allah, the Exalted and the Glorious, made the observance of the Night Prayer at the beginning of this surah obligatory. So the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and his Companions around him observed this (Night Prayer) for one year. Allah held back the concluding portion of this surah for twelve months in the heaven till (at the end of this period) Allah revealed the concluding verses of this surah which lightened (the burden of this Prayer), and the Night Prayer became a supererogatory Prayer after being an obligatory one. I said: Mother of the Believers, inform me about the Witr of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) she said: I used to prepare tooth stick for him, water for his ablution, and Allah would rouse him to the extent He wished during the night. He would use the tooth stick, and perform ablution, and would offer nine rak'ahs and would not sit but in the eighth one and would remember Allah, and praise Him and supplicate Him, then he would get up without uttering the salutation and pray the ninth rak'ah. He would then sit, remember Allah, praise Him and supplicate Him and then utter a salutation loud enough for us to hear. He would then pray two rak'ahs sitting after uttering the salutation and that made eleven rak'ahs. O my son, but when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) grew old and put on flesh, he observed Witr of seven, doing in the two rak'ahs as he had done formerly, and that made nine. O my son, and when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed the Prayer, he liked to keep on observing it, and when sleep or pain overpowered him and made it impossible (for him) to observe the Prayer at night, he prayed twelve rak'ahs during the day. I am not aware of Allah's Prophet (may peace be upon him) having recited the whole Qur'an during one single night, or praying through the night till morning, or fasting a complete month except Ramadan. He (the narrator) said: I then went to
Ibn 'Abbas
and narrated to him the Hadith (transmitted from her), and he said: She says the truth If I went to her and got into her presence, I would have listened to it orally from her. He said: If I were to know that you do not go to her, I would not have transmitted this Hadith to you narrated by her.
Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 1233
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