your prayers to your homes and do not turn them into graveyards.” (1) Agreed upon.
1137 – Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When any one of you has finished his prayer in the mosque, let him allocate a share of his prayers to his house, for Allah will place goodness in his house through those prayers.” Narrated by Muslim.
1138 – ʿUmar ibn ʿAṭāʾ related that Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr sent him to as-Sāʾib, the nephew of Namr, to ask about something Muʿāwiyah had seen him do in prayer. He replied, “Yes, I prayed Jumuʿah with him in the enclosed gallery. When the imam concluded with the salām, I remained where I was and performed another prayer. When Muʿāwiyah came in he sent for me and said, ‘Do not repeat what you have just done. After you have prayed Jumuʿah, do not attach another prayer to it until you have spoken or left, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us not to link one prayer to another until we have spoken or departed.’” Narrated by Muslim. (2)
205 – Chapter: Encouragement to Perform the Witr Prayer, clarifying that it is an emphatic sunnah and stating its time.
1139 – ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “The witr prayer is not obligatory like the prescribed prayers, but it is a practice established by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said, ‘Allah is One and He loves the odd-numbered prayer, so observe witr, O people of the Quran.’” Narrated by Abu Dawud and al-Tirmidhi, who graded it ḥasan.
1140 – ʿAʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said, “At every part of the night the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed the witr prayer: at the beginning of the night, in its middle, and in its last part, and his witr concluded at…"