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tabarani:3520 – Bishr b. Mūsá > al-Ḥumaydī > Sufyān > Yazīd b. Yazīd b. Jābir al-Azdī > Makḥūl > Ziyād b. a neighboriyah > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah al-Fihrī

[Machine] I witnessed the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , saying, "One should perform the witr prayer during its beginning."  

الطبراني:٣٥٢٠ – حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ ثنا سُفْيَانُ ثنا يَزِيدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ الْفِهْرِيِّ قَالَ

شَهِدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «يُنَفِّلُ الثُّلُثَ فِي بَدْأَتِهِ»  

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ahmad:17464 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn Jurayj > Ziyād / Ibn Saʿd > Yazīd b. Yazīd b. Jābir > Makḥūl > Zayd b. a neighboriyah al-Tamīmī > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah

[Machine] "I witnessed the Prophet of Allah ﷺ perform the night prayer known as Tahajjud."  

أحمد:١٧٤٦٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ حَدَّثَنِي زِيَادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعْدٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ التَّمِيمِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي حَبِيبُ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ

شَهِدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَفَلَ الثُّلُثَ  

ahmad:17467 – Abū al-Mughīrah > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Sulaymān b. Mūsá > Zayd b. a neighboriyah > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would give a third of the spoils after he would keep off the fifth. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2748)   

أحمد:١٧٤٦٧ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ

شَهِدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَفَلَ الثُّلُثَ بَعْدَ الْخُمُسِ  

hakim:5829 – Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd b. Mazīd al-Bayrūtī > Muḥammad b. Shuʿayb > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Makḥūl > Ziyād b. a neighboriyah al-Tamīmī > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah

[Machine] I heard Habib ibn Muslimah saying, "I witnessed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performing the voluntary prayer of Witr."  

الحاكم:٥٨٢٩ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ مَزِيدٍ الْبَيْرُوتِيُّ ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مَكْحُولًا يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ زِيَادَ بْنَ جَارِيَةَ التَّمِيمِيَّ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ حَبِيبَ بْنَ مَسْلَمَةَ يَقُولُ «شَهِدْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ نَفَّلَ الثُّلُثَ»  

tabarani:3521 – [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī > Maḥfūẓ b. Baḥr al-Anṭākī [Chain 2] Mūsá b. Hārūn > Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Miqsamī > Ḥajjāj b. Muḥammad > Ibn Jurayj > Ziyād b. Saʿd > Yazīd b. Jābir > Makḥūl > Ziyād b. a neighboriyah > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah

[Machine] I witnessed the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , observing the voluntary prayer of one third.  

الطبراني:٣٥٢١ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا مَحْفُوظُ بْنُ بَحْرٍ الْأَنْطَاكِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ هَارُونَ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْمِقْسَمِيُّ ثنا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ

شَهِدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «يُنَفِّلُ الثُّلُثَ»  

tabarani:3526 – ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz al-Mawṣilī > Ghassān b. al-Rabīʿ > Ibn Thawbān from his father > Makḥūl > Ziyād b. a neighboriyah > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray the middle third of the night."  

الطبراني:٣٥٢٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَزِيزٍ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ ثنا غَسَّانُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ ثنا ابْنُ ثَوْبَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ

«نَفَلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الثُّلُثَ»  

tabarani:3530 – Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Firyābī > Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Sulaymān b. Mūsá > Makḥūl > Ziyād b. a neighboriyah > Ḥabīb b. Maslamah

[Machine] I witnessed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Perform the Nawafil (optional prayers) in the beginning of the journey a quarter (of the distance) and in the return (journey) a third (of the distance)."  

الطبراني:٣٥٣٠ – حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ ثنا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ رَاهَوَيْهِ أَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ

شَهِدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «نَفَلَ فِي الْبَدْأَةِ الرُّبُعَ وَفِي الرَّجْعَةِ الثُّلُثَ»