the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
He replied, “My father narrated to me in the month of Ramadan and said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Allah has made the month of Ramadan obligatory for you (1), and I have instituted for you its night prayer, qiyām (2). Whoever fasts it and stands in prayer out of faith and seeking reward will leave his sins behind as on the day his mother bore him.’
This is a ḥasan, singular (gharīb) hadith.
It was recorded by al-Nasāʾī, through Ibn Rāhawayh from al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, and by Ibn Mājah, through Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm from Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī—all of them via al-Ḥuddānī.
Al-Nasāʾī said: “The correct version is the report of al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah.”
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-ʿAṣrūnī (3) informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad al-Harawī informed us; Tamīm al-Jurjānī informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Naysābūrī informed us; Muhammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥīrī informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī informed us; Abū Khaythamah narrated to us; Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Ibn Isḥāq, who said: Makḥūl related to me, from Kurayb, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “We were sitting with ʿUmar when he asked, ‘Has…’”