Yahya related to me from Malik that Nafi said, ""I was with Abdullah ibn Umar in Makka. The sky was clouded over and Abdullah feared that dawn was approaching so he prayed one raka for witr. Then the clouds cleared and he saw that it was still night, so he made his prayers even with one raka. Then he continued to pray ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to say the taslim between the two rakas and the one raka of witr so that he could order something he needed

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Sad ibn Abi Waqqas used to pray witr after isha with one raka. Malik said, ""This is not the situation with us. Rather three is the minimum for witr

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar that Abdullah ibn Umar used to say, ""The maghrib prayer is the witr of the daytime prayers."" Malik said, ""If someone prays witr at the beginning of the night, and goes to sleep, and then wakes up and it seems good to him to pray, let him pray, two rakas at a tim...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd al Karim ibn Abi'l-Mukhariq al-Basri from Said ibn Jubayr that Abdullah ibn Abbas slept, and when he woke up, he said to his servant, ""Go and see what the people have done,"" (by that time his sight had gone.) The servant went out and returned saying, ""The people have left from...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah ibn Abbas and Ubada ibn as-Samit and al-Qasim ibn Muhammad and Abdullah ibn Amir ibn Rabia had all prayed witr after the break of dawn

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that Abdullah ibn Masud said, ""I do not mind if the iqama for the subh prayer is called while I am still praying witr

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, ''Ubada ibn as-Samit used to lead the people in prayer. One day he came out for subh and the muadhdhin began to give the iqama for the subh prayer Ubada silenced him, prayed witr and then led them in subh

Yahya related to me from Malik that Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim said, ""I heard Abdullah ibn Amir ibn Rabia say, 'I sometimes pray witr while hearing the iqama, or after the break of dawn.' "" Abd ar-Rahman was not certain which he said

Malik related to me that Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim heard his father al-Qasim ibn Muhammad say, ""I have prayed witr after dawn."" Malik said, ""Only a person who oversleeps so that he does not do the witr prays it after dawn. No one should intentionally make his witr after dawn

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, told him that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to pray two quick rakas when the muadhdhin had finished the adhan for the subh prayer, before ...

Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to pray the two rakas of the dawn (fajr) so quickly that I would say to myself 'Has he recited the umm al-Qur'an or not?

Yahya related to me from Malik from Sharik ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Namir that Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman said, ""Some people heard the iqama and started to pray. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came out and said, 'Are you doing two prayers at the same time? Are you doing two prayers at t...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah ibn Umar missed the two rakas of dawn, and then did them after the sun rose

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim that al-Qasim ibn Muhammad had done the same as Ibn Umar

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""Prayer in congregation is better than the prayer of a man by himself by twenty-seven degrees

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""Prayer in congregation is better than the prayer of one of you on his own by twenty-five parts

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'zZinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""By Him in whose hand myself is! I had in mind to order firewood to be collected, then to order the prayer to be called, and to appoint a man to lead the people in pr...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'n-Nadr, the mawla of Umar ibn Ubaydullah from Yusr ibn Said that Zayd ibn Thabit said, ""The most excellent prayer is your prayer in your house, except for the prescribed prayers

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn Harmala al- Aslami from Said ibn al-Musayyab that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""What separates us from the hypocrites is being present at isha and subh. They cannot do it,"" or words to that effect

Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman from Abu Salih from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""If a man who is walking along a road finds a branch of thorns on the road and removes it, Allah thanks him for doing it and fo...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Bakr ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Hathma that Umar ibn al-Khattab missed Sulayman ibn Abi Hathma in the subh prayer. In the morning he went to the market, and Sulayman's house was between the market and the Prophet's mosque. He passed ash-Shifa, Sulayman's mother, and sai...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim that Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Amra al-Ansari said that Uthman ibn Affan came to the isha prayer and seeing only a few people in the mosque, he lay down at the back of the mosque to wait for the number of people to increase. Ibn Abi Amra went and ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from a man of the Bani'd-Dil called Busr ibn Mihjan from his father Mihjan that he was in a gathering with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the call to prayer was made. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that a man asked Abdullah ibn Umar, ""Sometimes I pray in my house, and then catch the prayer with the imam. Should I pray with him?"" Abdullah ibn Umar said to him, ""Yes,"" and the man said, ""Which of them do I make my prayer?"" Abdullah ibn Umar said, ""Is that up to you? It...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that a man asked Said ibn al-Musayyab, ""I pray in my house, and then I come to the mosque and find the imam praying. Should I pray with him?"" Said said, ""Yes,"" and the man said, ""Which of them is my prayer?"" Said said, ""Are you the one to decide that? That is up...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Afif as-Sahmi that a man from the tribe of Bani Asad asked Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. ""Sometimes I pray in my house, and then come to the mosque and find the imam praying. Should I pray with him?"" Abu Ayyub said, ""Yes, pray with him, for some one who does so has the reward of the group,...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to say, ""Someone who prays maghrib or subh and then catches them with the imam should not repeat them."" Malik said, ""I do not see any harm in someone who has already prayed in his house praying with the imam, except for maghrib, because if he repea...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""When you lead people in the prayer, make it short, because there are among them some people who are weak, ill and old. But when you pray on your own, make it as lon...

Yahya related to me from Malik that Nafi said, ""I stood behind Abdullah ibn Umar in one of the prayers when there was no one else with him, and he reached behind with his hand and placed me beside him