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tabarani:17375Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Najdah al-Ḥawṭī from my father > Baqiyyah > Baḥīr b. Saʿd > Khālid b. Maʿdān > Abū Baḥriyyah > Muʿādh b. Jabal

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the Night of Decree. He said, "It is in the last ten nights, on the seventh, or the fifth, or the third."  

الطبراني:١٧٣٧٥حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ نَجْدَةَ الْحَوْطِيُّ ثنا أَبِي ثنا بَقِيَّةُ عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَحْرِيَّةَ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ فَقَالَ «هِيَ فِي الْعَشْرِ الْأَوَاخِرِ فِي السَّابِعَةِ أَوِ الْخَامِسَةِ أَوِ الثَّالِثَةِ»  


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Collected by Mālik, Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
malik:19-13Ziyād > Mālik > ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

Ziyad related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said. "Search for Laylat al-Qadr in the last seven days."  

مالك:١٩-١٣وَحَدَّثَنِي زِيَادٌ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ تَحَرَّوْا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فِي السَّبْعِ الأَوَاخِرِ  

ahmad:22043Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ And Yazīd b. ʿAbd Rabbih > Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd > Baḥīr b. Saʿd > Khālid b. Maʿdān > Abū Baḥriyyah > Muʿādh b. Jabal

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the Night of Decree, and he said, "It is in the last ten nights, or in the twenty-fifth, or in the twenty-third."  

أحمد:٢٢٠٤٣حَدَّثَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنِي بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَحْرِيَّةَ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ فَقَالَ هِيَ فِي الْعَشْرِ الْأَوَاخِرِ أَوْ فِي الْخَامِسَةِ أَوْ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ