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malik:6-5Mālik > Yazīd b. Rūmān

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yazid ibn Ruman said, "The people used to watch the night in prayer during Ramadan for twenty- three rakas in the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab."  

مالك:٦-٥وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ رُومَانَ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ كَانَ النَّاسُ يَقُومُونَ فِي زَمَانِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ فِي رَمَضَانَ بِثَلاَثٍ وَعِشْرِينَ رَكْعَةً