Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 165
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّوَارِبِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي بِشْرٍ، عَنْ بَشِيرِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ، عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ، قَالَ أَنَا أَعْلَمُ النَّاسِ، بِوَقْتِ هَذِهِ الصَّلاَةِ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يُصَلِّيهَا لِسُقُوطِ الْقَمَرِ لِثَالِثَةٍ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib narrated to us: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from Abū Bishr, from Bashīr ibn Thābit, from Ḥabīb ibn Sālim, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr, who said: I know better than anyone the time of this prayer: the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would pray it when the moon set on the third night [of the lunar month].
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
بِوَقْتِ هَذِهِ الصَّلاَةِ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يُصَلِّيهَا لِسُقُوطِ الْقَمَرِ لِثَالِثَةٍ " .
The Arabic says the moon’s setting ‘for the third’; the bracketed wording clarifies the likely reference to the third night without adding a clock time.
No decision requested; the temporal phrase is rendered as stated.