Arabic Text
وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَلَمَةَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ بِشْرٍ الْحَرِيرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ، يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلاَّمٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ، أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ صَلاَةِ، رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمِثْلِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّ فِي حَدِيثِهِمَا تِسْعَ رَكَعَاتٍ قَائِمًا يُوتِرُ مِنْهُنَّ
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
Abu Salama reported that he asked 'A'isha about the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (may peace he upon him) (during the night). The rest of the hadith is the same but with this exception that he (the Holy Prophet) observed nine rak'ahs including Witr
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)
The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom Muslim who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.
This hadith is transmitted through 2 separate chains (turuq); each chain is shown separately.
Path 1
- 2Abu Salama bin 'Abdur Rahman (528 hadiths) semi'tu
- 3Yahyâ (36 hadiths) an
- 4Shayban bin 'Abdur Rahman (104 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Hüseyin b. Muhammed (3 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 6Zuhayr bin Harb (764 hadiths) haddesenî
- 6Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 5 narrators.
Path 2
- 2Abu Salama bin 'Abdur Rahman (528 hadiths) ahberanî
- 3Yahyâ b. Ebû Kesîr (224 hadiths) an
- 4Muâviye b. Sellâm (31 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Yahya bin Bashr bin Kathir al-Harayri (6 hadiths) haddesenî
- 5Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 4 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
