Mukhtasar Muslim

´Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that` one night I stayed with my maternal aunt, Umm al-Mu’minin Maymunah (may Allah be pleased with her) (so that I could observe the Tahajjud prayer of the Prophet ﷺ). The Prophet ﷺ got up at night and went to relieve himself, then washed his hands and face and then lay down again. Then he got up, came to the water-skin and untied its string, then performed an ablution between two extremes (i.e., neither very thorough nor very light), and did not waste much water, and completed the ablution. Then he stood up and began to pray. I also got up and stretched myself so that the Prophet ﷺ would not think that I was alert just to observe his state (from this it is known that the Companions did not hold the belief of knowledge of the unseen for the Prophet ﷺ as the ignorant now do for the Prophets and saints). I performed ablution and stood on his left side. The Prophet ﷺ took my hand and turned me to stand on his right side. (From this it is known that if there is one follower, he should stand on the right side of the Imam.) In short, the prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at night was completed in thirteen rak‘ahs, then he lay down and slept until he began to snore. And it was the blessed habit of the Prophet ﷺ that when he slept, he would snore. Then Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) came and informed the Prophet ﷺ about the morning prayer, so he got up and performed the (Sunnah of Fajr) prayer and did not perform ablution again, and supplicated with these words: “O Allah, place light in my heart, and light in my eyes, and light in my ears, and light on my right, and light on my left, and light above me, and light beneath me, and light in front of me, and light behind me, and increase light for me.” Kurayb (the narrator of the hadith) said that there were seven more words which are in my heart (i.e., they do not come to my tongue because I have forgotten them). Then I met some of the children of Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), and they informed me that those words were: “my sinew, my flesh, my blood, my hair, my skin, and two other things” (i.e., in all these the Prophet ﷺ asked for light).