صحيح ابن خزيمه
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah
جماع أبواب ذكر الوتر وما فيه من السننChapters on Witr and its Sunnahs
(443) بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْأَخْبَارِ الْمَنْصُوصَةِ وَالدَّالَّةِ عَلَى أَنَّ الْوِتْرَ لَيْسَ بِفَرْضٍThe chapter on explicit reports indicating that Witr is not obligatory
Hadith 1068
حَدَّثَنَا بُنْدَارٌ ، نَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ حُمْرَانَ ، نَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ، حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ النَّجَّارِيِّ ، أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ عُبَادَةَ بْنَ الصَّامِتِ عَنِ الْوِتْرِ ، قَالَ : " أَمْرٌ حَسَنٌ جَمِيلٌ عَمِلَ بِهِ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَالْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ ، وَلَيْسَ بِوَاجِبٍ " . قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ : قَدْ خَرَّجْتُ فِي كِتَابِ الْكَبِيرُ أَخْبَارَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي إِعْلامِهِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ فَرَضَ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى أُمَّتِهِ خَمْسَ صَلَوَاتٍ فِي الْيَوْمِ وَاللَّيْلَةِ ، فَدَلَّتْ تِلْكَ الأَخْبَارُ عَلَى أَنَّ الْمُوجِبَ لِلْوِتْرِ فَرْضًا عَلَى الْعِبَادِ مُوجِبٌ عَلَيْهِمْ سِتَّ صَلَوَاتٍ فِي الْيَوْمِ وَاللَّيْلَةِ ، وَهَذِهِ الْمَقَالَةُ خِلافُ أَخْبَارِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، وَخِلافُ مَا يَفْهَمُهُ الْمُسْلِمُونَ ، عَالِمُهُمْ وَجَاهِلُهُمْ وَخِلافُ مَا تَفْهَمُهُ النِّسَاءُ فِي الْخُدُورِ وَالصِّبْيَانُ فِي الْكَتَاتِيبِ ، وَالْعَبِيدُ وَالإِمَاءُ ، إِذْ جَمِيعُهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ الْفَرْضَ مِنَ الصَّلاةِ خَمْسٌ لا سِتٌّ
It is narrated from Abdul Rahman bin Abi Amrah Al-Bukhari that he asked Sayyiduna Ubadah bin Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) about Witr, so he replied, "It is a very excellent and good deed. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and, after him, the Muslims practiced it, and it is not obligatory." Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says, "I have mentioned in Kitab al-Kabir those statements of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he informed that Allah Almighty has made five prayers obligatory upon you and your Ummah in the day and night." So these narrations indicate that the person who declares Witr obligatory upon the servants, in fact, declares six prayers obligatory upon them in the day and night—and this is against the statements of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). It is also against what the learned and the ignorant among the Muslims understand. It is against what the veiled women have understood in their seclusion, what the children have understood in the schools and madrasahs, and what the slaves and slave-girls have understood—because all these people know that the obligatory prayers are five, not six.
