Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Allah is single (witr) and loves what is single, so observe the witr, you who follow the Quran.

The above mentioned tradition has also been narrated by Abdullah (bin Masud) through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version adds: A bedouin said: What are you saying ? He replied: This is neither for you, nor for your companions.

Narrated Kharijah ibn Hudhafah al-Adawi: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم came out to us and said: Allah the Exalted has given you an extra prayer which is better for you then the red camels (i. e. high breed camels). This is the witr which Allah has appointed for you between the night prayer and the daybreak.

Narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: The witr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong to us; the witr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong to us; the witr is a duty, so he who does not observe it does not belong to us.

Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit: Ibn Muhayriz said: A man from Banu Kinanah, named al-Makhdaji, heard a person called Abu Muhammad in Syria, saying: The witr is a duty (wajib). Al-Makhdaji said: So I went to Ubadah ibn as-Samit and informed him. Ubadah said: Abu Muhammad told a lie. I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: There are five prayers which Allah has prescribed on His servants. If anyone offers them, not losing any of them, and not treating them lightly, Allah guarantees that He will admit him to Paradise. If anyone does not offer them, Allah does not take any responsibility for such a person. He may either punish him or admit him to Paradise.

Ibn Umar said: A man who lived in the desert asked the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم about the prayer at night. He made a sing with his two fingers-in this way in pairs. The witr consists of one rak'ah towards the end in night.

Narrated Abu Ayyub al-Ansari: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: The witr is a duty for every Muslim so if anyone wishes to observe it with five rak'ahs, he may do so; if anyone wishes to observe it with three, he may do so, and if anyone wishes to observe it with one, he may do so.

Narrated Ubayy ibn Kab: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to observe witr with (reciting) Glorify the name of thy Lord, the most High (Surah 87), Say O disbelievers (Surah 109), and Say, He is Allah, the One, Allah, the eternally besought of all (112).

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: Abdul Aziz ibn Jurayj said: I asked Aishah, mother of the believers: With which (surah) the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to observe witr? (She reported same as in the Hadith of Ubayy ibn Kab, No. 1418) This version adds: In the third rak'ah he would recite: Say, He is Allah, the One (Surah 112), and Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak (Surah 113), and Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind (Surah 114).

Narrated Al-Hasan ibn Ali: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم taught me some words that I say during the witr. (The version of Ibn Jawwas has: I say them in the supplication of the witr. ) They were: O Allah, guide me among those Thou hast guided, grant me security among those Thou hast granted security, take me into Thy charge among those Thou hast taken into Thy charge, bless me in what Thou hast given, guard me from the evil of what Thou hast decreed, for Thou dost decree, and nothing is decreed for Thee. He whom Thou befriendest is not humbled. Blessed and Exalted art Thou, our Lord.

The aforesaid tradition has been transmitted by Abu Ishaq with the same chain and to the same effect. In the last of this tradition he said: The version has the words: He would recite the supplication of the with. He did not mention the words: I say them in the with. Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu al-Hawra' is Rabiah bin Shaiban.

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to say at the end of his witr: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thy good pleasure from Thy anger, and in Thy forgiveness from Thy punishment, and I seek refuge in Thy mercy from Thy wrath. I cannot reckon the praise due to Thee. Thou art as Thou hast praised Thyself. Abu Dawud said: Hisham is the earliest teacher of Hammad. Yahya bin Main said: No one is reported to have narrated traditions form him except Hammad bin Salamah. Abu Dawud said: Ubayy bin Kab said: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم recited supplication in the witr before bowing. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been narrated by 'Isa bin Yunus through a different chain of narrators from Ubayy bin Kab. He also narrated it through a different chain of narrators on the authority of Ubayy bin Kab that the Messenger of Allah (saw) recited the supplication in the witr before bowing. Abu Dawud said: The chain of narrators of the tradition of Saeed from Qatadah goes: Yazid bin Zurai' narrated from Saeed, from Qatadah, from 'Azrah, from Saeed bin Abdur-Rahman bin Abza, on the authority of his father, from the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. This version does not mention the supplication and the name of Ubayy. This tradition has also been narrated by Abd al-A'la and Muhammad bin Bishr al-Abdi. He heard the traditions from 'Isa bin Yunus at Kufah. They did not mention the supplication in their version. This tradition has also been narrated by Hisham al-Dastuwa'i and Shubah from Qatadah. They did not mention the supplication in their version. The tradition of Zubaid has been narrated by Sulaiman al-Amash, Shubah, Abd al-Malik bin Abi Sulaiman, and Jarir bin Hazim; all of them narrated on the authority of Zubaid. None of them mention the supplication in his version, except in the tradition transmitted by Hafs bin Ghiyath from Misar from Zubaid; he narrated in his version that he (the Prophet) recited supplication before bowing. Abu Dawud said: This version of tradition is not well know. There is doubt that Hafs might have narrated this tradition from some other narrator than Misar. Abu Dawud said: It is reported that Ubayy (b. Kab) used to recited the supplication )in the witr) in the second half of Ramadan.

Muhammad reported on the authority of some of his teachers that Ubayy bin Kab led them in prayer during Ramadan. He used to recite the supplication (in the with) during the second half of Ramadan.

Narrated Ubayy ibn Kab: Al-Hasan reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab gathered the people (in tarawih prayer) behind Ubayy ibn Kab (who led them). He used to lead them for twenty days (during Ramadan, and would not recite the supplication except in the second half of it (i. e. Ramadan). When the last ten days remained, he kept away from them, and prayed in his house. They used to say: Ubayy ran away. Abu Dawud said: This tradition shows that whatever has been reported about the recitation of the supplication is not tenable. Moreover, these two traditions from Ubayy bin Kab indicate that another tradition which tells that the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم recited the supplication in the witr is weak.

Narrated Ubayy ibn Kab: When the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم offered salutation in the witr prayer, he said: Glorify be to the king most holy.

Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone oversleeps and misses the witr, or forgets it, he should pray when he remembers.

Abu Hurairah said: My friend (i. e. the Prophet) instructed me to observe three practices that I do not leave while traveling nor while resident, to pray two rak'ahs in the forenoon, to fast three days every month and not to sleep but after observing the with.

Abu Al-Darda said: My friend (i. e. the Prophet) instructed me to observe three practices which I never leave: he instructed me to fast three days every month, and not to sleep but after observing the with, and to observe supererogatory prayer in the forenoon while traveling and while resident.

Narrated Abu Qatadah: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم asked Abu Bakr: When do you observe the witr? He replied: I observe the witr prayer in the early hours of the night. The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم asked Umar: When do you observe the witr? He replied: At the end of the night. He then said to Abu Bakr: This has followed it with care; and he said to Umar: He has followed it with strength.

Masruq said: I asked Aishah: When would the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم observe the witr prayer ? She replied: Any time he observed the witr, sometimes in the early hours of the night, sometimes at midnight and sometimes towards the end of it. But he used to observe the witr just before the dawn when he died.

Ibn Umar reported the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: Make haste to observe the witr prayer before morning.

Abdullah bin Abu Qais said: I asked Aishah about the witr observes by the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. She replied: Sometime he observed the witr prayer in the early hours of the night, sometimes he observed it at the end of it. I asked: How did he recite the Quran ? Did he recite the Quran quietly or loudly ? She replied: He did it in any way. Sometimes he recited quietly and sometimes loudly, sometimes he took bath and then slept and sometimes he performed ablution and then slept. Abu Dawud said: The narrators other than Qutaibah said: This refer to his bath due to sexual defilement.

Ibn Umar reported the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as suing: Make the last of your prayer at night a witr.

Narrated Talq ibn Ali: Qays ibn Talq said: Talq ibn Ali visited us on a certain day during Ramadan. He remained with us till evening and broke fast with us. He then stood up and led us in the witr prayer. He then went to his mosque and led them in prayer. When the witr remained, he put forward another man and said: Lead your companions in the witr prayer, for I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: There are no two witrs during one night.

Abu Hurairah said: By Allah, I shall offer prayer like that of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. The narrator said: Abu Hurairah used to recite the supplication in the last rak'ah of the noon, night and dawn prayers. He would supplicate for the believers and curse the disbelievers.