Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding this verse: "They used to sleep but little of the night" [Surah al-Dhariyat: 17], that they would stay awake and pray between Maghrib and Isha.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4747
Qatadah narrates from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding this verse: "They used to sleep but little of the night" [Surah al-Dhariyat: 17], that they would pray between Maghrib and Isha. In the hadith of Yahya there is an addition: "Their sides forsake their beds" [Surah al-Sajdah: 16].
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4748
Qatadah narrates from Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding this verse: "Their sides forsake their beds" [Surah al-Sajdah: 16] up to "they spend" [Surah al-Sajdah: 16]. The narrator said that they would stay awake and pray between Maghrib and Isha. And al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This was the night prayer (qiyam al-layl)."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4749
Zuhrah bin Ma'bad said: I heard both Ibn al-Munkadir and Abu Hazim (may Allah have mercy on them both) say regarding "Their sides forsake their beds" [Surah al-Sajdah: 16]: "This is the prayer of the Awwabin (those who constantly turn to Allah) between Maghrib and Isha."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4750
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:اخرجه ابن نصر في قيام اليل كما في الدر المنثور 6/546
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه ابن نصر في قيام اليل كما في الدر المنثور 6/546»
Ibn Abi Mulaykah asked Sayyiduna Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both) about "the rising by night" [Surah al-Muzzammil: 6], and he said: "The early part of the night after Maghrib." And he said: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), and he said the same.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4751
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:ضعيف
Hadith Takhrij«ضعيف۔ اخرجه الطبري في تفسيره 12/282»
Thabit narrates from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning "the rising by night" [Surah al-Muzzammil: 6] that he said: "It is the time between Maghrib and Isha, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray between Maghrib and Isha."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4752
Ibrahim bin Nafi' (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Hasan bin Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) used to pray between Maghrib and Isha, and he said that al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned that Tawus (may Allah have mercy on him) did not regard it as anything (significant).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4753
Al-Mubarak bin Fadalah narrates from al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) that every prayer offered after Isha is "the rising by night" [Surah al-Muzzammil: 6].
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4754
It is narrated from Abu Mijlaz (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: "Al-nashi'ah (the rising by night) is whatever is after Isha until the morning."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4755
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:صحيح
Hadith Takhrij«صحيح۔ اخرجه ابن نصر في قيام الليل كما في الدر المنثور 8/317»
Ali bin al-Husayn (may Allah have mercy on him) said that "the rising by night" [Surah al-Muzzammil: 6] is standing in prayer between Maghrib and Isha.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4756
Sa'id bin Jubayr narrates from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) concerning the saying of Allah Almighty, "Indeed, the rising by night" [Surah al-Muzzammil: 6], that it means standing in prayer at night, and that nashi'ah is an Abyssinian word: when a man stands up, they say: nasha'a (he rose).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4757
Shu'bah narrates from al-Taymi that he said: We were sitting in the gathering of Abu Uthman (may Allah have mercy on him) when a man came to us. He asked Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with him), the freed slave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), about the prayer of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: "The prayer offered between Maghrib and Isha."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4758
Abu al-Sha'tha' al-Muharibi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I was in an army in which Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) was present. Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Take care of these animals whose provision Allah Almighty has guaranteed; drive them gently on the march and give them their fodder. And hold fast to prayer in the time between Maghrib and Isha, for it lightens for you part of your night prayer and protects you from idle talk.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4759
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:حسن
Hadith Takhrij«حسن۔ اخرجه البخاري في التاريخ الكبير 6/507»