hadith 8564–9729

Ibrahim narrates: I asked Alqamah: How was the recitation of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him)? He said: "The people of the house would hear his voice."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Whoever makes himself hear his own voice is not counted as one who recites inaudibly."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Whoever makes both his ears hear is not one who recites inaudibly."

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Ibrahim narrates: We asked Alqamah - who used to spend the night with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) - how his recitation was at night. He said: "He would make the family of his brother Utbah hear it, while they were in a room in front of him."

(The narrator) said: We asked him: How did Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) recite? He said: "He would make the family of Utbah hear it, while they were in a room in front of him."

Ibrahim narrates: I asked Alqamah - who used to spend the night with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) - when Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to pray witr. He said: "He would pray witr when as much of the night remained as had passed since the time of the Maghrib prayer."

Alqamah bin Qays narrates: I spent a night with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him). He got up at the beginning of the night, then stood for prayer. He would recite like the recitation of the imam in the mosque of his neighbourhood, reciting slowly and distinctly, without modulating his voice; he would let those around him hear, and he did not raise his voice, until there remained of the last darkness of the night only as much as the interval between the adhan of Maghrib and finishing its prayer. Then he prayed witr.

Ibrahim narrates that Alqamah told him: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) would pray witr when as much of the night remained as had passed up to the Maghrib prayer.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The time of witr is between the two prayers."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The time of witr is between the two prayers."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The time of witr is between the two prayers, that is, between the Isha prayer and the Fajr prayer."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The time between the two prayers, that is, between the Isha prayer and the Fajr prayer, is the time of witr."

A similar hadith is also narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The time of witr is between the two prayers."

Al-Aswad bin Hilal narrates: I bear witness that I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) proclaiming it aloud: "The time of witr is between the two prayers, that is, between the later Isha, which you call al-Atamah, and the Fajr prayer. Whenever you pray witr, it is good."

Urwah narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to pray witr after Fajr, while my father used to pray witr before Fajr.

Hisham bin Urwah narrates from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "I would not mind if the Fajr prayer were begun (with the iqamah) while I was still praying witr."

Urwah narrates that Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I would not mind if the iqamah were called for the Fajr prayer while I was still in my night devotions and had not yet prayed witr."

Abu Maysarah narrates: A man came to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman! May witr be prayed after the adhan? He said: "Yes, and after the iqamah as well."

Abu Ubaydah narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to pray witr with three or more rak'ahs.

Abu Ubaydah narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to pray witr with three or more rak'ahs.

Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The witr of the night is like the witr of the day, that is, the Maghrib prayer: three rak'ahs."

Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Witr is three rak'ahs, like the witr of the day, that is, the Maghrib prayer."

Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid narrates that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Witr is three rak'ahs, like the Maghrib prayer."

Husayn narrates: It reached Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) prayed witr with one rak'ah, so he said: "A single rak'ah has never sufficed."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him): "Do you pray witr with one rak'ah?" Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Is witr not just one rak'ah? Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Certainly, but three rak'ahs are better." Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I will not add to it. At this Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) became angry, so Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Are you angry with me because I pray witr with one rak'ah, while you give inheritance to three grandmothers? Why then do you not also give inheritance to Hawwa (Eve), the wife of Adam (peace be upon him)?"

Ibn Sirin narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) stayed up late into the night talking at the house of al-Walid bin Uqbah bin Abi Mu'ayt. Then they left him and stood talking until the first light of dawn began to appear, and each of them prayed witr with a single rak'ah.

Al-Aswad narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) would recite "Qul huwa Allahu ahad" (Say: He is Allah, the One) in the last rak'ah of witr, then raise his hands and recite the qunut before bowing.

Al-Nakha'i narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to recite the qunut in witr throughout the whole year.

Several of the companions of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrate that he used to say: "When one of you has prayed witr, then sleeps and gets up (at night), let him undo his witr by adding one more rak'ah to it, and then pray witr again after that."

Alqamah bin Qays narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) did not recite the qunut in the Fajr prayer.

Alqamah and al-Aswad (may Allah have mercy on them both) narrate: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) did not recite the qunut in the Fajr prayer.

Abd al-Rahman bin al-Aswad narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) did not recite the qunut in the Fajr prayer, and when he recited the qunut in witr, he recited it before bowing.

Ibrahim narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) did not recite the qunut in the Fajr prayer.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to recite the qunut in witr before bowing, and he did not recite the qunut in the Fajr prayer.

Abu Ishaq narrates that al-Walid bin Uqbah sent (someone) to Sayyiduna Hudhayfah and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) to ask them about the prayer on the day of Eid. Meanwhile the Fajr prayer was begun, so Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) stood behind a pillar and prayed two rak'ahs, then joined them (in the prayer).

It is narrated about Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) that it weighed heavily on him to hear anyone speaking from the break of dawn until the morning prayer had been performed.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he disliked speaking after praying the two rak'ahs before Fajr.