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tabarani:9579Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > al-Thawrī > al-Aʿmash > Ibrāhīm > al-Aswad

[Machine] Abdullah bin Mas'ud said, "Seek Laylat al-Qadr on the night of the seventeenth or the night of the nineteenth or the night of the twenty-first."  

الطبراني:٩٥٧٩حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنِ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ قَالَ قَالَ

عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ «تَحَرَّوْا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ لَيْلَةَ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ صَبِيحَةَ بَدْرٍ أَوْ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً أَوْ ثَلَاثٍ وَعِشْرِينَ»  


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bayhaqi:8542Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ And ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū al-ʿAbbās > al-Aṣam > Asīd b. ʿĀṣim > al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥafṣ > Sufyān > al-Aʿmash > Ibrāhīm > al-Aswad

[Machine] Abdullah said, "Seek the Night of Qadr on the seventeenth, nineteenth, or twenty-first night of the lunar month."  

البيهقي:٨٥٤٢وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ هُوَ الْأَصَمُّ ثنا أَسِيدُ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ قَالَ

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ تَحَرَّوْا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ لَيْلَةَ سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ صَبِيحَةَ بَدْرٍ أَوْ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ أَوْ ثَلَاثًا وَعِشْرِينَ