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

What was narrated by al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id, from Fadalah, from Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar. He said: I heard Abu Abdillah عليه السلام say regarding the saying of Allah سبحانه وتعالى, Mighty and Majestic: ‘And in the hours before dawn they would seek forgiveness’ (Surah Dhariyat 51:18), this refers to the witr, at the end of the night, seventy times.