Chapter on the Manner of Prayer, Explanation of the Fifty-One Rak‘ahs; The Order, Recitation, Tasbih in Bowing and Prostration, Qunut, and What is Obligatory and Recommended Therein

Al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Ibn Abi Umayr from ‘Umar ibn Udhaynah from ‘Umar ibn Yazid: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: “Indeed, in the night there is a moment in which no Muslim servant coincides with it while praying and supplicating to Allah سبحانه وتعالى except that He عز وجل answers him, in every night.” I asked: “May Allah سبحانه وتعالى set you right, which moment of the night is it?” Imam عليه السلام said: “When half the night has passed, until the last third remaining.”