Jabir reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “When a man retires to his bed, an angel and a devil rush to him. The angel says: End your day with good! The devil says: End your day with evil! If he remembers Allah and then falls sleep, the angel will …
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Al-Hasan reported: Ibn Mas’ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “The death of a scholar is a loss that cannot be replaced for as long as the day and night alternate.” Source: Shu’ab al-Imān 1590 عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ رضي الله عنه مَوْتُ الْعَالِمِ ثُلْمَةٌ لَا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْءٌ مَا اخْتَلَفَ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ …
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Ibn Abbas reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, would pray at night in cycles two by two, then he used the toothstick after he finished. Source: Sunan Ibn Mājah 288 Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي بِاللَّيْلِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ …
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Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Islam will be taken apart just as a garment is taken apart, until fasting is not known, nor prayer, nor rites, nor charity. The Book of Allah Almighty will vanish in a single night, such that no verse of it …
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Zirr reported: Ibn Mas’ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “The Quran will vanish in one night. No verse in the scripture or in the heart of anyone will be left behind.” Source: Sunan al-Dārimī 3343 Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Al-Darani Ibn Taymiyyah said, “Indeed, it will be taken away by night at …
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Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever guards these prescribed prayers, he will not be recorded as negligent. Whoever recites one hundred verses in the night, he will not be recorded as negligent.” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khuzaymah 1082 Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ …
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Al-Nu’man ibn Bashir reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Verily, Allah issued a decree two thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth. He sent down two verse for the end of Surat al-Baqarah. They are not recited in a house but that Satan will not come near it.” …
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‘Urwah ibn al-Zubayr reported: Aisha, may Allah have pleased with her, would say when she intended to sleep, “O Allah, I ask you for good and true dreams, not false dreams, beneficial and not harmful.” When she said this, they knew that she would not say anything more until she awoke in the morning or …
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Abu Darda reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever comes to his carpet intending to stand for prayer at night, yet his eyes are overcome with sleep until morning, his intention is recorded for him and his sleep is charity for him from his Lord Almighty.” Source: Sunan al-Nasā’ī 1787 Grade: …
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Anas ibn Malik reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “He does not have faith in me who spends the night satiated while he knows that a neighbor to his side is hungry.” Source: al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr lil-Ṭabarānī 751 Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله …
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Abdullah ibn Amr reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Verily, in Paradise are rooms whose outside can be seen from inside and whose inside can be seen from outside.” Abu Musa said, “Who are they for, O Messenger of Allah?” The Prophet said, “For those who speak mildly, feed …
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Anas reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Feed the hungry, spread peace, speak kind words, and pray at night when people are sleeping. You will enter Paradise in peace.” Source: Musnad al-Bazzār 2497 Grade: Sahih li ghayrihi (authentic due to external evidence) according to Al-Albani عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ …
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Abu Sa’id reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The most truthful of dreams are seen shortly before dawn.” Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2274 Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Ibn al-Qattan عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ أَصْدَقُ الرُّؤْيَا بِالْأَسْحَارِ 2274 سنن الترمذي كتاب الرؤيا باب قوله لهم البشرى …
Hadith on Dreams: Truest dreams seen in last hours of night Read More »
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “May Allah have mercy on a man who stands at night to pray and wakes his wife to pray. If she refuses, he sprinkles water on her face. May Allah have mercy on a wife who stands at night to pray …
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Al-Darimi reported: Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “I have divided the night into three parts. I sleep in a third of it, I stand in prayer for a third of it, and for a third of it I recall the traditions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon …
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Jabir reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever fears he cannot stand for prayer at the end of the night, let him perform Witr prayer in its beginning. Whoever hopes to stand for prayer at the end of the night, let him perform Witr prayer at its ending. Verily, …
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Abdullah ibn Umar reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Make the last of your prayers at night the witr prayer.” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 998, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 751 Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ …
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Aisha reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, would perform Witr prayer every night, sometimes at the beginning, middle, or end of the night, finishing his Witr prayer until an hour before dawn. Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 996, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 745 Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim …
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Abu Huraira reported: Abu Bakr said, “O Messenger of Allah, command me with something to say in the mornings and evenings.” The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Say: O Allah, the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of everything and its …
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Jabir reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Verily, there is an hour of the night in which a Muslim man does not ask for good in the affairs of the world and the Hereafter but that he is given it, and that is for every night.” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim …
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