Those who disliked sleeping between Maghrib and Isha

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade sleeping before Isha.

Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to forbid sleeping before Isha.

Ibrahim and Mujahid said: Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) would censure the one who slept before Isha so strongly that he almost reviled him.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We used to keep away from our beds before Isha.

Aslam said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote in a letter that no one should sleep before Isha; and whoever sleeps, may his eyes not sleep.

The same is reported through another chain.

Sa'id bin Yasar said: A man came to Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "We are fighting men and soldiers; if we sleep before Isha, is there any harm in that?" He said: "Yes, there is harm; two harms, rather three harms!"

Al-Haytham al-Muradi said: A man asked Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) about sleeping before Isha, and he said: "One should pray and then sleep." He asked the same question three times, and he gave the same answer all three times. The third time he said to him: "One should pray and then sleep; may your eye not sleep!"

Mujahid said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever sleeps before Isha, may his eye not sleep."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I do not like at all sleeping before Isha or conversing after Isha.

Ata, Tawus and Mujahid used to dislike sleeping before Isha and conversing after Isha.

Mis'ar said: I asked Yazid al-Faqir: "Did you hear Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) saying that sleeping before Isha is disliked (makruh)?" He said: "Yes, I heard him say that."

Ibrahim said: The early generations used to dislike sleeping before Isha and conversing after Isha.

Ata said about the saying of Allah Almighty: "Their sides forsake their beds" [Al-Sajdah: 16]: it refers to (staying awake) before the Isha prayer.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: That I pray (Isha) at this time (after Maghrib) is dearer to me than that I sleep at that time and then get up and pray.

Mujahid said: That I pray (Isha) before the twilight disappears is dearer to me than that I sleep and then get up after the twilight has disappeared and pray in congregation.