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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
suyuti:3789a –
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السيوطي:٣٧٨٩a –

"أفْضَلُ الصَّلاةِ بعد الفريضَةِ: قيامُ اللَّيلِ".

ابن جرير عن أبي هريرة

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darimi:1517 – Zayd b. ʿAwf > Abū ʿAwānah > ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr > Muḥammad b. al-Muntashir > Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Abū Hurayrah

that the Prophet ﷺ said, "The best ˹voluntary˺ ritual prayer after the farḍ (mandatory) prayer is ˹that which is done˺ in the middle of the night."

الدارمي:١٥١٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْتَشِرِ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «أَفْضَلُ الصَّلَاةِ بَعْدَ الْفَرِيضَةِ الصَّلَاةُ فِي جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ»

nasai-kubra:1315 – Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman Arsalah Shuʿbah > Sūwayd b. Naṣr > ʿAbdullāh > Shuʿbah > Abū Bishr > Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman

The most excellent fast after Ramadan is God's month. al-Muharram, and the most excellent prayer after what is prescribed is prayer during the night. (Using translation from Muslim 1163a)

الكبرى للنسائي:١٣١٥ – قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَرْسَلَهُ شُعْبَةُ أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي بِشْرٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ حُمَيْدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «أَفْضَلُ الصَّلَاةِ بَعْدَ الْفَرِيضَةِ قِيَامُ اللَّيْلِ وَأَفْضَلُ الصَّوْمِ بَعْدَ رَمَضَانَ الْمُحَرَّمُ»