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nasai-kubra:1411 – Isḥāq b. Manṣūr > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Prophet ﷺ used to pray witr with five and he did not sit except in the last (rak'ah) of them. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1717)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٤١١ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ «يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسٍ لَا يَجْلِسُ إِلَّا فِي آخِرِهِنَّ»  

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nasai:1717 – Isḥāq b. Manṣūr > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Prophet ﷺ used to pray witr with five and he did not sit except in the last (rak'ah) of them.  

النسائي:١٧١٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسٍ وَلاَ يَجْلِسُ إِلاَّ فِي آخِرِهِنَّ  

ahmad:25702 – Wakīʿ > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Prophet ﷺ used to pray witr with five and he did not sit except in the last (rak'ah) of them. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1717)   

أحمد:٢٥٧٠٢ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسِ رَكَعَاتٍ لَا يَجْلِسُ إِلَّا فِي آخِرِهِنَّ  

ذِكْرُ وَصْفِ وِتْرِ الْمَرْءِ إِذَا أَوْتَرَ بِخَمْسِ رَكَعَاتٍ

ibnhibban:2439 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > ʿUmar b. Mūsá al-Ḥādī > Ḥammād b. Salamah And Ḥammād b. Zayd > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to perform Sunnah prayers of five units and would not sit down except in the last one of them."  

ابن حبّان:٢٤٣٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْحَادِي قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ وَحَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسِ رَكَعَاتٍ لَا يَقْعُدُ إِلَّا فِي آخِرِهِنَّ»  

nasai-kubra:434 – Isḥāq b. Manṣūr > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Prophet ﷺ used to pray witr with five and he did not sit except in the last (rak'ah) of them. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1717)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٣٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ «يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسٍ لَا يَجْلِسُ إِلَّا فِي آخِرِهِنَّ»