The Book on Al-Witr

أَبْوَابُ الْوِتْرِ

Chapter 1: What Has Been Related About The Virtue Of Al-Witr

Kharijab bin Hudhafah narrated

"Allah's Messenger came out to us and he said: 'Indeed Allah has assisted you with a Salat that is better for you than red camels: Al-Witr which Allah made for you between the Isha prayer till Al-Fajr has begun."

Chapter 2: What Has Been Related About Al-Witr Is Not Incumbent

Ali said

"Al-Witr is not incumbent like your obligatory prayers, but it is a Sunnah of Allah's Messenger who said: "Indeed Allah is Witr (One), and He loves Al-Witr, so perform Al-Witr O people of the Qur'an."

Sufyan Ath-Thawri and others reported from Abu Ishaq, from Asim bin Damrah, that

Ali said: "Al-Witr is not incumbent like the status of the obligatory prayers, but it is a Sunnah which Allah's Messenger practiced."

Chapter 3: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Sleep Before Al-Witr

Abu Hurairah narrated

"Allah's Messenger ordered me to perform Al-Witr before sleeping."

Chapter 4: What Has Been Related About Al-Witr During The Beginning Of The Night And Its End

Masruq narrated that

he asked Aishah about the Witr of the Prophet. She said: "He would perform Witr during all of the night; (either) its beginning, its middle, or its end. So when he died, his Witr ended, during the approachof As-Sahar."

Chapter 5: What Has Been Related About Seven (Rak'ah) For Al-Witr

Umm Salamah narrated

"The Prophet would perform Witr with thirteen [Rak'ah]. When he was older and became weak he performed Witr with seven."

Chapter 6: What Has Been Related About Five (Rak'ah) For Al-Witr

Aishah narrated

"The night prayer of Allah's Messenger was thirteen Rak'ah, five of which were his Witr, not sitting in any of them except at the end of them. When the Mu'adh-dhin called the Adhan he would stand to perform two light (Rak'ah)."

Chapter 7: What Has Been Related About Three (Rak'ah) For Al-Witr

Ali narrated

"Allah's Messenger would perform Al-Witr with three, reciting nine Surah from the Mufassal in them, reciting three Surah in each Rak'ah with Say: "Allah is One." At the end of them."Muhammad bin Sirin said:"They would perform Al-Witr with five, with three, and with one Rak'ah, and they considered all of that to be good."

Chapter 8: What Has Been Related About One (Rak'ah) For Al-Witr

Anas bin Sirin narrated that

he asked Ibn Umar about the length of the two Rak'ah (before) Al-Fajr. He said: "The Prophet would pray two and two during the night, and he would perform Al-Witr with one Rak'ah. And he would pray two Rak'ah while he was hearing the Adhan [meaning that they were light]."

Chapter 9: What Has Been Related [About] What Is Recited During Al-Witr

Ibn Abbas narrated

"Allah's Messenger would recite during Al-Witr: "Glorify the Name of your Lord the Most High' and, 'Say: O you disbelievers!' and, 'Say: Allah is One,' in each Rak'ah."

Abdul-Aziz bin Juraij said

"I asked Aishah about what (recitation) Allah's Messenger would perform Al-Witr with. She said: 'In the first he would recite: Glorify the Name of your Lord the Most High, in the second: Say: O you disbelievers!, and in the third: Say: Allah is One" and, Al-Mu'awwidhatain.'"

Chapter 10: What Has Been Related About The Qunut In Al-Witr

Al-Hasan bin Ali [may Allah be pleased with him] said

"Allah's Messenger taught me some phrases to say during Al-Witr (Allahummahdini fiman hadait, wa a'fini fiman afait, wa tawallani fiman tawallait, wa barik Li fima atait, wa qini sharra ma qadait, fa Innaka taqdi wa la yuqda Alaik, wa innahu la yadhillu man walait, tabarakta Rabbana wa ta'alait.) 'O Allah guide me among those You have guided, pardon me among those You have pardoned, befriend me among those You have befriended, bless me in what You have granted, and save me from the evil that You decreed. Indeed You decree, and none can pass decree, and none can pass decree upon You, indeed he is not humiliated whom You have befriended, blessed are You our Lord and Exalted.'"

Chapter 11: What Has Been Related About A Man Who Sleeps Past Al-Witr Or Forgets It

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "Whoever sleeps past Al-Witr or forgets it, then let him pray it when he remembers it or when he awakens."

Zaid bin Aslam narrated from his father that

the Prophet said: "Whoever sleeps past his Al-Witr then let him pray it in the morning."

Chapter 12: What Has Been Related About Preceding The Morning With Al-Witr

Ibn Umar narrated that

the Prophet said: "Precede the morning with Al-Witr."

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "Perform Witr before the morning comes upon you."

Ibn Umar narrated that

Allah's Messenger said: "When Fajr begins, then every Salat of the night and Al-Witr have gone, so perform Al-Witr before Fajr begins."

Chapter 13: What Has Been Related About 'There Are No Two Witr In One Night'

Qais bin Talq bin Ali narrated that

his father said: I heard Allah's Messenger saying: "There are no two Witr in one night."

Umm Salamah narrated

"The Prophet would pray two Rak'ah after Al-Witr."