الفتح الربانی
Fath al-Rabbani
أبواب صلاة الليل والوترChapters on Night Prayer and Witr
بَابُ حُجَّةِ مَنْ قَالَ إِنَّهَا ثَمَانِ رَكَعَاتٍ غَيْرُ الْوِتْرِChapter on the Evidence of Those Who Say It Is Eight Units Excluding Witr
Hadith 2246
اُردوEn
وَعَنْهُ أَيْضًا قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِعَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا: أَيُّ أُمَّاهْ! أَخْبِرِينِي عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَتْ: كَانَتْ صَلَاتُهُ فِي رَمَضَانَ وَغَيْرِهِ سَوَاءً، ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ رَكْعَةً فِيهَا رَكْعَتَا الْفَجْرِ، قُلْتُ: فَأَخْبِرِينِي عَنْ صِيَامِهِ، قَالَتْ: كَانَ يَصُومُ حَتَّى نَقُولَ قَدْ صَامَ وَيُفْطِرُ حَتَّى نَقُولَ قَدْ أَفْطَرَ وَمَا رَأَيْتُهُ صَامَ شَهْرًا أَكْثَرَ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ فِي شَعْبَانَ كَانَ يَصُومُهُ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
Abu Salamah bin Abdur Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that he asked Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her): Mother! Tell me about the prayer of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). She said: Whether it was Ramadan or other than Ramadan, the prayer of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to be thirteen rak‘ahs, among which two rak‘ahs were the Sunnah of Fajr. I said: Tell me about the fasts of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). She said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to fast continuously until we would say that now he will always fast, but then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would leave off fasting (in succession) until we would say that now he will abandon fasting. And I did not see the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) fasting in any month as much as he fasted in Sha‘ban. Rather, it should be said that he fasted the whole of Sha‘ban, except for a few days.
