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Sahih al-Bukhari 4570 (Book 65, Hadith 92) #4353
The Night Prayer of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).

SUMMARY: This hadith is about the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) performing his night prayer and teaching a young boy how to do it.

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: (One night) I stayed overnight in the house of my aunt Maimuna, and said to myself, "I will watch the prayer of Allah's Messenger ﷺ " My aunt placed a cushion for Allah's Messenger ﷺ and he slept on it in its length-wise direction and (woke-up) rubbing the traces of sleep off his face and then he recited the last ten Verses of Surat-al-'Imran till he finished it. Then he went to a hanging water skin and took it, performed the ablution and then stood up to offer the prayer. I got up and did the same as he had done, and stood beside him. He put his hand on my head and held me by the ear and twisted it. He offered two rak'at, then two rak'at, then two rak'at, then two rak'at, then two rak'at, then two rak'at, and finally the witr (ie one rak'a) prayer.
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ مَخْرَمَةَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ كُرَيْبٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ قَالَ بِتُّ عِنْدَ خَالَتِي مَيْمُونَةَ فَقُلْتُ لأَنْظُرَنَّ إِلَى صَلاَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَطُرِحَتْ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وِسَادَةٌ، فَنَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي طُولِهَا، فَجَعَلَ يَمْسَحُ النَّوْمَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ الآيَاتِ الْعَشْرَ الأَوَاخِرَ مِنْ آلِ عِمْرَانَ حَتَّى خَتَمَ، ثُمَّ أَتَى شَنًّا مُعَلَّقًا، فَأَخَذَهُ فَتَوَضَّأَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ يُصَلِّي، فَقُمْتُ فَصَنَعْتُ مِثْلَ مَا صَنَعَ ثُمَّ جِئْتُ فَقُمْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ، فَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى رَأْسِي، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِأُذُنِي، فَجَعَلَ يَفْتِلُهَا، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ أَوْتَرَ‏.‏
TOPICS
prayer  *  night  *  worship  *  teaching  *  muhammad

QUICK LESSONS:
Perform your prayers with devotion and care; Teach others properly on how to pray correctly; Recite verses from Quran before praying; Perform ablution before praying; Offer two rak’ahs at a time until you complete eight rak’ahs followed by one witr raka as your final prayer .

EXPLANATIONS:
This hadith is about the Prophet Muhammad's night prayer, which he performed with great devotion and care. He taught a young boy, Ibn 'Abbas, how to perform this prayer by showing him step-by-step what to do. First, he recited the last ten verses of Surat al-'Imran before performing ablution from a hanging water skin. Then he stood up and offered two rak'ats at a time until he completed eight rak'ats in total followed by one witr rak'a as his final prayer. Through this hadith we learn that it is important for us to be devoted in our worship of Allah and also take care in teaching others how to pray properly so that they can benefit from it too.

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