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

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 8
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 8

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

وَعَنْهُ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ عَبْدَةَ اَلسَّابُورِيِّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّ اَلنَّاسَ يَرْوُونَ عَنِ اَلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اَللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ« إِنَّ فِي اَللَّيْلِ لَسَاعَةً لاَ يَدْعُو فِيهَا عَبْدٌ مُؤْمِنٌ بِدَعْوَةٍ إِلاَّ اُسْتُجِيبَ لَهُ» قَالَ «نَعَمْ» قُلْتُ مَتَى هِيَ قَالَ« مَابَيْنَ نِصْفِ اَللَّيْلِ إِلَى اَلثُّلُثِ اَلْبَاقِي» قُلْتُ لَيْلَةً مِنَ اَللَّيَالِي أَوْ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ فَقَالَ« كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ»
And from him, from Safwan, from Abu Ayyub, from Abdah al-Saburi, who said: I said to Abu Abdillah عليه السلام: “May I be your ransom, people narrate from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family; ‘Indeed, in the night there is an hour in which no believing servant supplicates with a supplication except that it is answered for him.’” Imam عليه السلام said: “Yes.” I asked: “When is it?” Imam عليه السلام said: “Between the middle of the night and the remaining third.” I asked: “On one of the nights or every night?” Imam عليه السلام said: “Every night.”
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 126
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb