Reports on the midday nap

Mujahid says: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) received word that a governor he had appointed did not take the midday nap. Sayyiduna Umar wrote to him: "Take the midday nap, for I have been told that the devil does not take the midday nap."

Mujahid said: "Indeed, the devils do not take the midday nap."

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla says that Sayyiduna Khawwat bin Jubayr (may Allah be pleased with him), who was a Companion who fought at Badr, said: "Sleeping in the early part of the day is foolishness, sleeping in the middle of the day is natural disposition, and sleeping in the last part of the day is stupidity."

Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid bin Jabir says: Makhul used to dislike sleeping after Asr, and he would say: "Doing so carries the fear of falling prey to obsessive whisperings."