Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1644
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَدْرٍ، عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِلاَلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ الْقَطَّانُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: دَخَلَ رَمَضَانُ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " إِنَّ هَذَا الشَّهْرَ قَدْ حَضَرَكُمْ وَفِيهِ لَيْلَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ مَنْ حُرِمَهَا فَقَدْ حُرِمَ الْخَيْرَ كُلَّهُ وَلاَ يُحْرَمُ خَيْرَهَا إِلاَّ مَحْرُومٌ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Badr, Abbad ibn al-Walid, narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Bilal narrated to us; Imran al-Qattan narrated to us, from Qatadah, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: Ramadan began. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘This month has come upon you, and in it is a night better than a thousand months. Whoever is deprived of it has been deprived of all good, and no one is deprived of its good except one who is truly deprived.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic says ‘a night’ and does not name it here; the translation leaves it unnamed.