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tabarani:3963[Chain 1] Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Mubārak > Ḥuṣayn b. Numayr [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Marwazī > Saʿīd b. Sulaymān > ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām > Sufyān b. Ḥusayn > al-Zuhrī > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī > Abū Ayyūb

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Witr prayer is five or three or one. If you are unable to do so, then make a gesture." "This is the wording of the hadith of Ibn Sulayman."  

الطبراني:٣٩٦٣حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ ثنا حُصَيْنُ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمَرْوَزِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ قَالَا ثنا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «الْوِتْرُ خَمْسٌ أَوْ ثَلَاثٌ أَوْ وَاحِدَةٌ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ فَأَوْمِئْ إِيمَاءً» «وَاللَّفْظُ لِحَدِيثِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ»