He said, “Thirteen rakʿahs.” Ibn Naṣr likewise transmitted it in Qiyām al-Layl (91), adding:

Ibn Isḥāq said, “What I have heard on this point—that is, the number of units for the night prayer in Ramadan—which is, to my mind, the most firmly established and most deserving of acceptance, is the report of al-Sāʾib, namely that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to perform thirteen rakʿahs during the night.”

I say: This figure of “thirteen” which Ibn Isḥāq adduces is corroborated, and it agrees with the other narration from ʿĀʾishah regarding his ﷺ night prayer in Ramadan. In one version I have clarified that it includes the two Sunnah rakʿahs of Fajr; accordingly, Ibn Isḥāq’s report can be understood in that light so that it is consistent with the narrations transmitted by the majority.

From what has preceded, you now see that Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr’s statement—“I know of no one who said it was eleven rakʿahs except Mālik”—is plainly mistaken.

Al-Mubārakfūrī said in Tuḥfat al-Ahwadhī: “That is a baseless error.”

For this very reason al-Zurqānī refuted him in his commentary on the Muwaṭṭaʾ, saying: “The matter is not as he claimed, for Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr also reported it through another chain from Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, and he said: eleven rakʿahs, exactly as Mālik stated.” ⦗54⦘