No. 2617

Ibn 'Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported that some persons among the Companions of the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) were shown Lailat- ul-Qadr while sleeping in the last week (of Ramadan). Thereupon Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: I see that your dreams agree regarding the last week; so he who wants to seek it should seek it in the last week (during the night).

No. 2618

Ibn 'Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Seek Lailat-ul-Qadr in the last week (of Ramadan).

No. 2619

Salim reported on the authority of his father that a person saw Lailat-ul- Qadr on the 27th (of Ramadan). Thereupon Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: I see that your dreams agree regarding the last ten (nights of Ramadan). So seek it on an odd number (of these ten nights).

No. 2620

Salim b. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that his father said: I heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: So far as Lailat-ul-Qadr is concerned. some persons among you have seen it (in a dream) in the first week and some persons among you have been shown that it is in the last week; so seek it in the last ten (nights).

No. 2621

Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Seek it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) in the last (ten nights). If one among you shows slackness and weakness (in the earlier part of Ramadan), it should not be allowed to prevail upon him in the last week.

No. 2622

Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: He who is anxious to seek it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) should seek it in the last ten (nights of Ramadan).

No. 2623

'Ibn 'Umar (Allaah be pleased with both of them) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Seek the time of Lailat-ul-Qadr in the last (ten nights), or he said: in the last nine (nights).

No. 2624

Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr; then some members of my family awoke me up, then I was caused to forget it. So seek it in the last week. Harmala said: (The Prophet did not say:" I was made to forget," but he stated):" But I forgot it."

No. 2625

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) spent in devotion (in i'tikaf) the middle ten nights of the month of Ramadan, and when twenty nights were over and it was the twenty-first night, he went back to his residence and those who were along with him also returned (to their respective residences). He spent one month in devotion. Then he addressed the people on the night he came back (to his residence) and commanded them as Allaah desired (him to command) and then said: I used to devote myself (observe i'tikaf) during these ten (nights). Then I started devoting myself in the last ten (nights). And he who desires to observe i'tikaf along with me should spend the night) at his place of i'tikaf. And I saw this night (Lailat-ul-Qadr) but I forgot it (the exact night) ; so seek it;In the last ten nights on odd numbers. I saw (the glimpses of that dream) that I was prostrating in water and mud. Abu Sa'id al-Khudri said: It rained on the twenty-first night and the water dripped (from the roof) of the mosque at the place where the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) observed prayer. I looked at him and as he completed the dawn prayer, (I found) his face was wet with mud and water.

No. 2626

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) devoted (himself to prayer) in the middle (ten nights) of Ramadan. The rest of the hadith is the same except for these words:" That he adhered to his place of i'tikaf and his forehead was besmeared with mud and water."

No. 2627

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) observed i'tikaf (confined himself for devotion and prayer) in the first ten (days) of Ramadan; he then observed i'tikaf in the middle ten (days) in a Turkish tent with a mat hanging at its door. He (the Prophet) took hold of that mat and placed it in the nook of the tent. He then put his head out and talked with people and they came near him, and he (the Prophet) said: I observed i'tikaf in the first ten (nights and days) in order to seek that night (Lailat-ul-Qadr). I then observed i'tikaf in the middle ten days. Then (an angel) was sent to me and I was told that this (night) is among the last ten (nights). He who among you likes to observe i'tikaf should do so; and the people observed it along with him, and he (the Prophet) said: That (Lailat-ul-Qadr) was shown to me on an odd (night) and I (saw in the dream) that I was prostrating in the morning in clay and water. So in the morning of the twenty-first night when he (the Prophet) got up for dawn (prayer). there was a rainfall and the mosque dripped, and I saw clay and water. When he came out after completing the morning prayer (I saw) that his forehead and the tip of his nose had (traces) of clay and water, and that was the twenty-first night among the last ten (nights).

No. 2628

Abu Salama reported: 'We discussed amongst ourselves Lailat-ul-Qadr. I came to Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allaah be pleased with him) who was a friend of mine and said to him: Would you not go with us to the garden of date trees? He went out with a cloak over him. I said to him: Did you hear the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) making mention of Lailat-ul-Qadr? He said: Yes, (and added) we were observing i'tikaf with the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) in the middle ten days of Ramadan, and came out on the morning of the twentieth and the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) addressed us and said: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr, but I forgot (the exact night) or I was caused to forget it, so seek it in the last ten odd (nights), and I was shown that I was prostrating in water and clay. So he who wanted to observe i'tikaf with the Messenger of Allaah (inay sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) should return (to the place of i'tikaf). He (Abu Sa'id al-Khudri) said: And we returned and did not find any patch of cloud in the sky. Then the cloud gathered and there was (so heavy) a downpour that the roof of the mosque which was made of the branches of date-palms began to drip. Then there was prayer and I saw the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) prostrating in water and clay till I saw the traces of clay on his forehead.

No. 2629

This badith has been reported on the authority of Yahya b. Abu Kathir with the same chain of transmitters (with a slight variation of these words): I saw the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) after he had completed (the prayer) and there was a trace of clay on his forehead and tip (of the nose).

No. 2630

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allaah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) observed i'tikaf in the middle ten days of Ramadan to seek Lailat-ul-Qadr before it was made manifest to him. When (these nights) were over, he commanded to strike the tent. Then it was made manifest to him that (Lailat-ul-Qadr) was in the last ten nights (of Ramadan), and commanded to pitch the tent (again). He then came to the people and said: O people, Lailat-ul-Qadr was made manifest to me and I came out to inform you about it that two persons came contend- ing with each other and there was a devil along with them and I forgot it. So seek it in the last ten nights of Ramadan. Seek it on the ninth, on the seventh and on the fifth. I (one of the narrators) said: Abu Sa'id, you know more than us about numbers. He said: Yes, indeed we have better right than you. I said: What is this ninth, seventh, and fifth? He said: When twenty-one (nights are over) and the twenty-second begins, it is the ninth, and when twenty-three (nights) are over, that which follows (the last night) is the seventh, and when twenty-five nights are over, what follows it is fifth. Ibn Khallad said: Instead of the word Yahliqan (contending), he said Yakhtasiman, (they are disputing).

No. 2631

'Abdullah b. Unais reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr; then I was made to forget it, and saw that I was prostrating in water and clay in the morning of that (night). He (the narrator) said: There was a downpour on the twenty-third night and the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) led us in prayer, and as he went back, there was a trace of water and clay on his forehead and on his nose. He (the narrator) said: 'Abdullah b. Unais used to say that it was the twenty-third (night).

No. 2632

'A'isha (Allaah be pleased with her) and Ibn Numair reported Allaah's Mes- senger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Look for (and in the words of Waki, seek) Lailat-ul-Qadr in the last ten nights of Ramadan.

No. 2633

Zirr b. Habaish reported: I thu asked Ubayy b. Ka'b (Allaah be pleased with him): Your brother (in faith) Ibn Mas'ud says: He who stands (for the night prayer) throughout the year would find Lailat-ul-Qadr, whereupon he said: May Allaah have mercy upon him; (he said these words) with the intention that people might not rely only (on one night), whereas he knew that it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) is in the month of Ramadan and it is the twenty-seventh night. He then took oath (without making any exception, i. e. without saying Innsha Allaah) that it was the twenty-seventh night. I said to him: Abu Mundhir, on what ground do you say that? Thereupon he said: By the indication or by the sign which the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) gave us, and that is that on that day (the sun) would rise without having any ray in it.

No. 2634

Zirr b. Hubaish reported that Ubayy b. Ka'b (Allaah be pleased with him) said about Lailat-ul-Qadr: By Allaah, I know well about it. Shu'ba said: To the best of my knowledge it was the twenty-seventh night for which the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) commanded us to stand for prayer. Shu'ba doubted these words: That it was the night for which the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) commanded us to stand for prayer. And (he further) said: This was narrated to me by a friend of mine from him (the Prophet).

No. 2635

Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported: We were talking about Lailat-ul-Qadr in the presence of the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and he said: He who amongst you remembers (the night) when the moon arose and it was like a piece of plate (at the fag end of the month in a state of waning).