2610 — “Whoever fears that he will not rise during the latter part of the night should perform Witr at its beginning; and whoever hopes to rise at its end should perform Witr at the end of the night. For the prayer at the end of the night is witnessed, and that is better.”

Recorded by Muslim (2/174–175), Abū ʿAwānah (2/317), al-Tirmidhī (456), Ibn Mājah (1/360), as well as ʿAbd al-Razzāq in al-Muṣannaf (4623), Ibn Naṣr in Qiyām al-Layl (p. 116), Ibn al-Jārūd in al-Muntaqā (269), Ibn Khuzaymah (1086), al-Bayhaqī (3/35), and Aḥmad (3/389), through the route of ʿAbd al-Razzāq. All of them narrated from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: and he mentioned it.

Abū al-Zubayr also narrated it from Jābir with similar wording. It was recorded by Muslim, Abū ʿAwānah, and al-Bayhaqī through the route of Maʿqil ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, from him, with this wording. Ibn Lahīʿah also narrated from Abū al-Zubayr, who said: I asked Jābir about a man who performs Witr after the night prayer and then goes to sleep. Jābir said: and he mentioned it. Recorded by Aḥmad (3/348).

2611 — “1. Any Muslim man who emancipates a Muslim man shall have him as his ransom from the Fire: each of the latter’s limbs compensating for one of his own limbs. 2. Any Muslim man who emancipates two Muslim women shall have them as his ransom from the Fire: each of their limbs compensating for one of his own limbs. 3. Any Muslim woman who emancipates a Muslim woman shall have her as her ransom from the Fire: each of her limbs compensating for one of her own limbs.”

Recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1/292) through the route of ʿImrān ibn ʿUyaynah—Sufyān’s brother—