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tabarani:9074Muḥammad b. ʿAlī > Saʿīd b. Manṣūr > Abū ʿAwānah > Abū Isḥāq > al-Aswad b. Yazīd > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] Seek the night of Al-Qadr in the seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first nights of Ramadan, during the pre-dawn of the day of Badr, the day of the great distinction, the day the two groups met. It cannot occur except in an odd-numbered night.  

الطبراني:٩٠٧٤حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ ثنا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ قَالَ

الْتَمِسُوا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ لِسَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ خَلَتْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ صَبِيحَةَ يَوْمِ بَدْرٍ {يَوْمَ الْفُرْقَانِ يَوْمَ الْتَقَى الْجَمْعَانِ} وَفِي إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ وَفِي ثَلَاثٍ وَعِشْرِينَ فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَكُونُ إِلَّا فِي وِتْرٍ  


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hakim:4301Abū Isḥāq And ʾAbū al-Ḥusayn > Muḥammad b. Qutaybah > Abū ʿAwānah > Abū Isḥāq > al-Aswad > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "Seek the Night of Decree for the 19th morning of the day of Badr, the day of the Criterion, the day of the meeting of the two groups."  

الحاكم:٤٣٠١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ وَأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَا ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ قُتَيْبَةَ ثنا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

«الْتَمِسُوا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ لِتِسْعَ عَشْرَةَ صَبِيحَةَ يَوْمِ بَدْرٍ يَوْمَ الْفُرْقَانِ يَوْمَ الْتَقَى الْجَمْعَانِ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ على شرط البخاري ومسلم