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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:200 – Abū Kurayb Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ > ʿAbdullāh b. Ismāʿīl > Mujālid > Abū al-Waddāk > Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Allah smiles at three things: a row in the prayer, a man who prays in the depths of the night, and a man who fights' I think he said, 'behind the battalion.'"

ابن ماجة:٢٠٠ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مُجَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْوَدَّاكِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَضْحَكُ إِلَى ثَلاَثَةٍ لِلصَّفِّ فِي الصَّلاَةِ وَلِلرَّجُلِ يُصَلِّي فِي جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ وَلِلرَّجُلِ يُقَاتِلُ أُرَاهُ قَالَ خَلْفَ الْكَتِيبَةِ

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"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Allah smiles at three things: a row in the prayer, a man who prays in the depths of the night, and a man who fights' I think he said, 'behind the battalion.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 200)

السيوطي:٥٠١٥a –

"إِنَّ الله لَيَضْحَكُ إِلَى ثَلاثة: الصَّف فِي الصَّلَاةِ؛ والرَّجُل يُصَلِّي في جَوْفِ الليلِ، ولِلرَّجُلِ يُقَاتِلُ خَلْفَ الْكَتِيبة".

[هـ] ابن ماجة عن أَبي سعيد